Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete Documentation/00-INDEX entries

From: Jovi Zhang
Date: Tue Feb 22 2011 - 02:34:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rob Landley <rlandley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 11:43 PM, Jovi Zhang wrote:
>> There also have many doc located in Documentation directory, but not
>> in 00-INDEX file, like
>> apparmor.txt
>> bad_memory.txt
>> braille-console.txt
>> bt8xxgpio.txt
>> circular-buffers.txt
>> coccinelle.txt
>> credentials.txt
>> debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
>> devicetree/
>> dmaengine.txt
>> dynamic-debug-howto.txt
>> email-clients.txt
>> flexible-arrays.txt
>> futex-requeue-pi.txt
>> gcov.txt
>> ...
>>
>> Also there have some entry not list as alphabetical order.
>
> My script lists those as well: it finds a little over 1100 of them,
> which is why I didn't post the list. Â(Here it is gzipped and attached.)
> ÂBut that's also listing files for directories that have no 00-INDEX, so
> I should probably filter that better...
>
> Is alphabetical order a requirement?
>
> Rob
>

Hmm, not sure..., The header of 00-INDEX is like this:
>>>>
This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what
they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in
alphabetical order as well, or risk being hunted down like a rabid dog.
Please try and keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line.
                            Thanks -- Paul G.
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