linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

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Message-ID: <20180903124545.089ead51@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:45:45 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Henrik Austad <henrik@...tad.us>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:55:42 +0200
Henrik Austad <henrik@...tad.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:20:30AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 14:28 +0200, Henrik Austad wrote:  
> > > The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
> > > in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
> > > usefulness is brought into question.
> > > 
> > > A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer
> > > needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
> > > it is time to just throw them out.  
> > 
> > Good idea.
> > 
> > .rst is becoming more common and these 00-INDEX files
> > are unnecessary and occasionally misleading.  
> 
> Ok, should I respin and clean up all the other files referencing 00-INDEX 
> and send to a wider audience?

Wider audience might be good.  I've not yet decided whether I think this
is a good idea or not.  We certainly don't need those files for stuff
that's in the RST doctree, that's what the index.rst files are for.  But I
suspect some people might complain about losing them for the rest of the
content.  I do get patches from people updating them, so some folks do
indeed look at them...

jon