Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270634AbUJULaK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:30:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269072AbUJUJvZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:51:25 -0400 Received: from out003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.103]:11739 "EHLO out003.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269056AbUJUJn0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:43:26 -0400 Message-ID: <417784BC.1060707@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:43:24 -0400 From: Jim Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Structural changes for Documentation directory References: <4176CFE3.2030306@verizon.net> <20041020153058.6de41ed8.akpm@osdl.org> <4176EBD8.3050306@verizon.net> <20041021042036.GB14189@redhat.com> <41773D3F.2040801@verizon.net> <20041020220037.2e209907.akpm@osdl.org> <20041021050528.GA26814@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20041021050528.GA26814@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [209.158.211.53] at Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:43:25 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1113 Lines: 28 Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:00:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The other possibility is to have a TODO file with a list of out-of-date > > > files, and have the removal of the file listing in the TODO file be part > > > of the patch submission. > > > > It all sounds too complex. ./docs/ is fine. > > asides from bloating up interdiffs, what does moving stuff around > gain us over just fixing stuff in place ? Do we really have > that much out of date documentation to justify this ? > > Dave > > Well, before I started this thread, I actually looked through the root Documentation directory, taking notes, and there were 40 files that were definitely out of date, and 10 that were not obviously out of date, but had no indication that it had been updated recently. That's without digging into the subdirectories. Jim - 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/