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in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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List of outdated 00-INDEX: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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 50 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/arm/00-INDEX
deleted file mode 100644
index b6e69fd371c4..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/00-INDEX
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-00-INDEX
-	- this file
-Booting
-	- requirements for booting
-CCN.txt
-	- Cache Coherent Network ring-bus and perf PMU driver.
-Interrupts
-	- ARM Interrupt subsystem documentation
-IXP4xx
-	- Intel IXP4xx Network processor.
-Netwinder
-	- Netwinder specific documentation
-Porting
-       - Symbol definitions for porting Linux to a new ARM machine.
-Setup
-       - Kernel initialization parameters on ARM Linux
-README
-	- General ARM documentation
-SA1100/
-	- SA1100 documentation
-Samsung-S3C24XX/
-	- S3C24XX ARM Linux Overview
-SPEAr/
-	- ST SPEAr platform Linux Overview
-VFP/
-	- Release notes for Linux Kernel Vector Floating Point support code
-cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt
-	- Algorithm for CPU and Cluster setup/teardown
-empeg/
-	- Ltd's Empeg MP3 Car Audio Player
-firmware.txt
-	- Secure firmware registration and calling.
-kernel_mode_neon.txt
-	- How to use NEON instructions in kernel mode
-kernel_user_helpers.txt
-	- Helper functions in kernel space made available for userspace.
-mem_alignment
-	- alignment abort handler documentation
-memory.txt
-	- description of the virtual memory layout
-nwfpe/
-	- NWFPE floating point emulator documentation
-swp_emulation
-	- SWP/SWPB emulation handler/logging description
-tcm.txt
-	- ARM Tightly Coupled Memory
-uefi.txt
-	- [U]EFI configuration and runtime services documentation
-vlocks.txt
-	- Voting locks, low-level mechanism relying on memory system atomic writes.