Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863Ab0BSGGz (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:06:55 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55479 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278Ab0BSGGy (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:06:54 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Russ Dill Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100218095200.63509b8c@bike.lwn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 70.176.251.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100218 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 41 > 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 > There are several others scattered around Archives of changelogs 16K Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004 4.0K Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-floppy.1996-2002 16K Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-tape.1995-2002 64K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 Last updated in 1997! 14K sound/oss/CHANGELOG Updated periodically by Nick Cheng 8.0K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.arcmsr Updated periodically by various LSI employees 24K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid 16K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas Added with driver in 2005, never updated 92K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc Last updated 2002 8.0K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ips 24K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx 32K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx 8.0K Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx_2 But of course, there are changelogs in all sorts of other files as well, along with severely outdated TODOs (such as Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt circa 2002) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a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/