Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:00:42 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:52:00AM -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.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> 
> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Applied, thanks.

> Ah, for those good old days when Linus refused to use a SCM (may they
> never return! :-)

Indeed :)

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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