linux/Documentation/block
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in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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List of outdated 00-INDEX: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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bfq-iosched.txt block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
biodoc.txt block: remov blk_queue_invalidate_tags 2018-06-15 08:13:35 -06:00
biovecs.txt Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios 2015-08-13 12:32:07 -06:00
capability.txt genhd: expose AN to user space 2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
cfq-iosched.txt block: replace REQ_NOIDLE with REQ_IDLE 2016-11-01 09:43:26 -06:00
cmdline-partition.txt Documentation: block: cmdline-partition.txt fixes and additions 2018-05-08 09:18:53 -06:00
data-integrity.txt bio-integrity: fold bio_integrity_enabled to bio_integrity_prep 2017-07-03 16:56:24 -06:00
deadline-iosched.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ioprio.txt Update Jens Axboe's email in Documentation/* 2007-10-16 09:59:55 +02:00
kyber-iosched.txt blk-mq: introduce Kyber multiqueue I/O scheduler 2017-04-14 14:06:58 -06:00
null_blk.txt null_blk: add zone support 2018-07-09 09:07:55 -06:00
pr.txt Doc: Fix double words in Documentation 2017-01-26 15:25:41 -07:00
queue-sysfs.txt block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
request.txt Update Jens Axboe's email in Documentation/* 2007-10-16 09:59:55 +02:00
stat.txt block: Track DISCARD statistics and output them in stat and diskstat 2018-07-18 08:44:22 -06:00
switching-sched.txt Documentation: drop as block elevator reference in switching-sched.txt 2011-11-04 12:01:48 -07:00
writeback_cache_control.txt block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00