linux/Documentation/powerpc
Henrik Austad a7ddcea58a 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in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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List of outdated 00-INDEX: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>
2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00
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bootwrapper.txt
cpu_families.txt powerpc: Add cpu family documentation 2014-06-05 13:20:01 +10:00
cpu_features.txt Documentation/powerpc: Fix path to the powerpc directory 2013-01-10 17:01:50 +11:00
cxl.txt cxl: Add psl9 specific code 2017-04-13 23:34:31 +10:00
cxlflash.txt scsi: cxlflash: Support AFU debug 2017-06-26 15:01:12 -04:00
DAWR-POWER9.txt powerpc: Document issues with the DAWR on POWER9 2018-07-02 23:54:28 +10:00
dscr.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt powerpc/eeh: rename EEH from "extended" to "enhanced" error handling 2016-04-11 20:30:42 +10:00
firmware-assisted-dump.txt powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved 2017-06-02 20:16:49 +10:00
hvcs.txt
mpc52xx.txt Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup 2012-03-18 23:59:34 +01:00
pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentation 2015-03-31 13:02:38 +11:00
pmu-ebb.txt powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s 2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
ptrace.txt powerpc/ptrace: Add DAWR debug feature info for userspace 2013-04-18 15:59:55 +10:00
qe_firmware.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
syscall64-abi.txt powerpc/64: Document the syscall ABI 2016-09-20 14:36:14 +10:00
transactional_memory.txt powerpc: Document issues with TM on POWER9 2018-07-02 23:54:29 +10:00