Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751387AbbLLGYT (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:24:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:33616 "EHLO mail-ob0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017AbbLLGYR (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:24:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20151212053548.GO20997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 04:24:17 -0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: README Cleanup Project From: Diego Viola To: Al Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1960 Lines: 58 On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Diego Viola wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Al Viro wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 02:46:30AM -0200, Diego Viola wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I would like to do some cleanup on the README, for example, I see it >>> still mentions LILO in a few places, e.g. >>> >>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/README#L256-L258 >>> >>> And: >>> >>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/README#L295-L317 >>> >>> Is this still relevant today? Can I send a patch to remove it from the >>> README? Any objections? >> >> What for? LILO still works just fine here, TYVM. >> > > I know LILO still works fine, and I know the project is still alive. Wait, I'm actually not sure about my statement above, looks like the project is dead: "NOTE: I will finish development of LILO at December 2015 because of some limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop this nice software further, please let me know ..." http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ > >>> Could you guys also help me identify other parts in the README that >>> are not relevant anymore today? >>> >>> I understand some people still use LILO but most don't anymore, so I >>> would like to help keep the README updated to reflect on what the >>> current standards and needs are. >> >> _What_ current standards? > > Perhaps not "standards" but there are other bootloaders these days, > GRUB and systemd-boot being one of them. > > Shouldn't the README be generic or neutral about bootloaders? > > See this message from Jonathan Corbet where he gave his opinion on this: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/10/602 > > Thanks, > > Diego -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/