Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758577Ab0BRWCh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:02:37 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:42559 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000Ab0BRWCf (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:02:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:02:33 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Chris Ball Cc: Jonathan Corbet , LKML , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100218095200.63509b8c@bike.lwn.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1782 Lines: 46 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Chris Ball 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. > > Should we lose the others too, then? > > pullcord:cjb~/git/linux-2.6 % du -sh **/ChangeLog > 8.0K arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog > 32K drivers/char/ChangeLog > 20K drivers/parport/ChangeLog > 16K fs/befs/ChangeLog > 100K fs/ntfs/ChangeLog > > Last changed dates: > > arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog = 2003/03 > drivers/parport/ChangeLog = 2001/10 > fs/befs/ChangeLog = 2002/03 > fs/ntfs/ChangeLog = 2007/10 > > The ntfs changelog is modified recently, but the ChangeLog text added > to it is duplicated as the commit message for each change, so those > ChangeLog entries are redundant -- they're already in the commit > history, unless you want changes from earlier than the initial import > cutoff in 2004, in which case you'd need the history repo for those. I think we could nuke them all, but I'd suggest first checking with maintainers of the code in question. It's possible that they do some kind of auto-import from some weird external repositories in which they auto-generate this Changelog file, so they might re-appear later (not everyone is using git even these days ... strange, but apparently true). Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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/