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

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:34:46 +0800 Jovi Zhang wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com> 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.  (Here it is gzipped and attached.)
> >  But 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.
> <<<

so Yes, alpha order, please.

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~Randy
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