Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:02:33 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog |
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Chris Ball wrote:
> > The ChangeLog file under drivers/char is 30K of stuff dedicated > > to the mid-90's TTY exploits of Ted Ts'o; it has been updated > > once since 1998 - and that was in 2001. It's interesting > > history, but we don't normally carry that kind of history inline > > with the code. Let's remove it. > > Should we lose the others too, then? > > pullcord:cjb~/git/linux-2.6 % du -sh **/ChangeLog > 8.0K arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog > 32K drivers/char/ChangeLog > 20K drivers/parport/ChangeLog > 16K fs/befs/ChangeLog > 100K fs/ntfs/ChangeLog > > Last changed dates: > > arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog = 2003/03 > drivers/parport/ChangeLog = 2001/10 > fs/befs/ChangeLog = 2002/03 > fs/ntfs/ChangeLog = 2007/10 > > The ntfs changelog is modified recently, but the ChangeLog text added > to it is duplicated as the commit message for each change, so those > ChangeLog entries are redundant -- they're already in the commit > history, unless you want changes from earlier than the initial import > cutoff in 2004, in which case you'd need the history repo for those.
I think we could nuke them all, but I'd suggest first checking with maintainers of the code in question. It's possible that they do some kind of auto-import from some weird external repositories in which they auto-generate this Changelog file, so they might re-appear later (not everyone is using git even these days ... strange, but apparently true).
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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