Ditching Out-of-Date Documentation Infrastructure

Posted by bob on Jan 17, 2019 11:22 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Zack Brown
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Long ago, the Linux kernel started using 00-Index files to list the contents of each documentation directory. This was intended to explain what each of those files documented. Henrik Austad recently pointed out that those files have been out of date for a very long time and were probably not used by anyone anymore. This is nothing new. Henrik said in his post that this had been discussed already for years, "and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out."

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