Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752942Ab0BRSEI (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:04:08 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:42057 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752620Ab0BRSED (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:04:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:03:01 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: LKML , "Theodore Ts'o" , Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog Message-ID: <20100218180301.2e60c6a3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100218095200.63509b8c@bike.lwn.net> References: <20100218095200.63509b8c@bike.lwn.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 20 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:52:00 -0700 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > The ChangeLog file under drivers/char is 30K of stuff dedicated to the > mid-90's TTY exploits of Ted Ts'o; it has been updated once since 1998 > - and that was in 2001. It's interesting history, but we don't > normally carry that kind of history inline with the code. Let's remove > it. Acked-by: Alan Cox It's no longer useful - or indeed even accurate Alan -- 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/