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Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:29:33 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     ebiederm@...ssion.com, corbet@....net, keescook@...omium.org,
        yzaikin@...gle.com
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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: remove ancient boiler plate

The proc.rst has some ancient verbiage which dates back to 1999
which is simply just creating noise at this point for documentation.
Remove that cruft.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 55 ------------------------------
 1 file changed, 55 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 47e95dbc820d..9fd5249f1a5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -4,22 +4,8 @@
 The /proc Filesystem
 ====================
 
-=====================  =======================================  ================
-/proc/sys              Terrehon Bowden <terrehon@...bell.net>,  October 7 1999
-                       Bodo Bauer <bb@...ochet.net>
-2.4.x update	       Jorge Nerin <comandante@...alinux.com>   November 14 2000
-move /proc/sys	       Shen Feng <shen@...fujitsu.com>	        April 1 2009
-fixes/update part 1.1  Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>    June 9 2009
-=====================  =======================================  ================
-
-
-
 .. Table of Contents
 
-  0     Preface
-  0.1	Introduction/Credits
-  0.2	Legal Stuff
-
   1	Collecting System Information
   1.1	Process-Specific Subdirectories
   1.2	Kernel data
@@ -56,47 +42,6 @@ fixes/update part 1.1  Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>    June 9 2009
 Preface
 =======
 
-0.1 Introduction/Credits
-------------------------
-
-This documentation is  part of a soon (or  so we hope) to be  released book on
-the SuSE  Linux distribution. As  there is  no complete documentation  for the
-/proc file system and we've used  many freely available sources to write these
-chapters, it  seems only fair  to give the work  back to the  Linux community.
-This work is  based on the 2.2.*  kernel version and the  upcoming 2.4.*. I'm
-afraid it's still far from complete, but we  hope it will be useful. As far as
-we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It
-is focused  on the Intel  x86 hardware,  so if you  are looking for  PPC, ARM,
-SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably  won't find what you are looking for.
-It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But
-additions and patches  are welcome and will  be added to this  document if you
-mail them to Bodo.
-
-We'd like  to  thank Alan Cox, Rik van Riel, and Alexey Kuznetsov and a lot of
-other people for help compiling this documentation. We'd also like to extend a
-special thank  you to Andi Kleen for documentation, which we relied on heavily
-to create  this  document,  as well as the additional information he provided.
-Thanks to  everybody  else  who contributed source or docs to the Linux kernel
-and helped create a great piece of software... :)
-
-If you  have  any comments, corrections or additions, please don't hesitate to
-contact Bodo  Bauer  at  bb@...ochet.net.  We'll  be happy to add them to this
-document.
-
-The   latest   version    of   this   document   is    available   online   at
-http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html
-
-If  the above  direction does  not works  for you,  you could  try the  kernel
-mailing  list  at  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org  and/or try  to  reach  me  at
-comandante@...alinux.com.
-
-0.2 Legal Stuff
----------------
-
-We don't  guarantee  the  correctness  of this document, and if you come to us
-complaining about  how  you  screwed  up  your  system  because  of  incorrect
-documentation, we won't feel responsible...
-
 Chapter 1: Collecting System Information
 ========================================
 
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