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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
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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