Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Documentation: correct lots of spelling errors (series 2)

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Feb 02 2023 - 13:47:39 EST


Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2/2/23 10:33, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 2/2/23 10:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> [PATCH 6/9] Documentation: scsi/ChangeLog*: correct spelling
>>>> [PATCH 7/9] Documentation: scsi: correct spelling
>>>
>>> I've left these for the SCSI folks for now. Do we *really* want to be
>>> fixing spelling in ChangeLog files from almost 20 years ago?
>>
>> That's why I made it a separate patch -- so the SCSI folks can decide that...
>
> How about removing the Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.* files? I'm not
> sure these changelogs are still useful since these duplicate information
> that is already available in the output of git log ${driver_directory}.

Actually, the information in those files mostly predates the git era, so
you won't find it that way. I *still* question their value, though...

jon