Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Henrik Austad
2018-09-04 00:15:23 +02:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 9d92e4835f
commit a7ddcea58a
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00-INDEX
- this file
53c700.txt
- info on driver for 53c700 based adapters
BusLogic.txt
- info on driver for adapters with BusLogic chips
ChangeLog.1992-1997
- Changes to scsi files, if not listed elsewhere
ChangeLog.arcmsr
- Changes to driver for ARECA's SATA RAID controller cards
ChangeLog.ips
- IBM ServeRAID driver Changelog
ChangeLog.lpfc
- Changes to lpfc driver
ChangeLog.megaraid
- Changes to LSI megaraid controller.
ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
- Changes to serial attached scsi version of LSI megaraid controller.
ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx
- Changes to ncr53c8xx driver
ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
- Changes to sym53c8xx driver
ChangeLog.sym53c8xx_2
- Changes to second generation of sym53c8xx driver
FlashPoint.txt
- info on driver for BusLogic FlashPoint adapters
LICENSE.FlashPoint
- Licence of the Flashpoint driver
LICENSE.qla2xxx
- License for QLogic Linux Fibre Channel HBA Driver firmware.
LICENSE.qla4xxx
- License for QLogic Linux iSCSI HBA Driver.
Mylex.txt
- info on driver for Mylex adapters
NinjaSCSI.txt
- info on WorkBiT NinjaSCSI-32/32Bi driver
aacraid.txt
- Driver supporting Adaptec RAID controllers
advansys.txt
- List of Advansys Host Adapters
aha152x.txt
- info on driver for Adaptec AHA152x based adapters
aic79xx.txt
- Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI host adapters
aic7xxx.txt
- info on driver for Adaptec controllers
arcmsr_spec.txt
- ARECA FIRMWARE SPEC (for IOP331 adapter)
bfa.txt
- Brocade FC/FCOE adapter driver.
bnx2fc.txt
- FCoE hardware offload for Broadcom network interfaces.
cxgb3i.txt
- Chelsio iSCSI Linux Driver
dc395x.txt
- README file for the dc395x SCSI driver
dpti.txt
- info on driver for DPT SmartRAID and Adaptec I2O RAID based adapters
dtc3x80.txt
- info on driver for DTC 2x80 based adapters
g_NCR5380.txt
- info on driver for NCR5380 and NCR53c400 based adapters
hpsa.txt
- HP Smart Array Controller SCSI driver.
hptiop.txt
- HIGHPOINT ROCKETRAID 3xxx RAID DRIVER
libsas.txt
- Serial Attached SCSI management layer.
link_power_management_policy.txt
- Link power management options.
lpfc.txt
- LPFC driver release notes
megaraid.txt
- Common Management Module, shared code handling ioctls for LSI drivers
ncr53c8xx.txt
- info on driver for NCR53c8xx based adapters
osd.txt
Object-Based Storage Device, command set introduction.
osst.txt
- info on driver for OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape
ppa.txt
- info on driver for IOmega zip drive
qlogicfas.txt
- info on driver for QLogic FASxxx based adapters
scsi-changer.txt
- README for the SCSI media changer driver
scsi-generic.txt
- info on the sg driver for generic (non-disk/CD/tape) SCSI devices.
scsi-parameters.txt
- List of SCSI-parameters to pass to the kernel at module load-time.
scsi.txt
- short blurb on using SCSI support as a module.
scsi_mid_low_api.txt
- info on API between SCSI layer and low level drivers
scsi_eh.txt
- info on SCSI midlayer error handling infrastructure
scsi_fc_transport.txt
- SCSI Fiber Channel Tansport
st.txt
- info on scsi tape driver
sym53c500_cs.txt
- info on PCMCIA driver for Symbios Logic 53c500 based adapters
sym53c8xx_2.txt
- info on second generation driver for sym53c8xx based adapters
tmscsim.txt
- info on driver for AM53c974 based adapters
ufs.txt
- info on Universal Flash Storage(UFS) and UFS host controller driver.