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in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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List of outdated 00-INDEX: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

Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all.  Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.

New 00-INDEX
 - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006

Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
 - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16 ("dmatest: run test via
   debugfs")
 - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555 ("percpu: add
   documentation on this_cpu operations")
 - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a37 ("mutex: Add
   support for wound/wait style locks")
 - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe5635 ("bcache: A block layer
   cache")
 - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb4
   ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
   kthreads")
 - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963 ("drivers: phy: add generic
   PHY framework")
 - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc ("null_blk:
   documentation")
 - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea30 ("Add
   Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
 - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb98950 ("Add a generic
   associative array implementation.")
 - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
 - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28
   ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
 - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a ("ARM: Add
   interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
 - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05 ("ARM:
   7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
 - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770 ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
   (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
 - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d ("ARM: mcpm: Add
   baremetal voting mutexes")
 - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
   4b60779d ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
   gptimers API")
 - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc ("dt:
   Linux DT usage model documentation")
 - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f4 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
   format configuration API")
 - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a04980 ("video, sm501: add
   edid and commandline support")
 - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864 ("fbdev: move udlfb out
   of staging.")
 - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae
   ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
 - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
   8a4c6e19 ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
   configuration")
 - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c9141 ("ide: add
   warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
 - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129ac
   ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
 - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a ("LEDS: add
   BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
 - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281 ("leds: add
   oneshot trigger")
 - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8 ("leds:
   add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
 - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
 - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
   40839129, c4e84bde, 5a4faa87
 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e8 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe ("i40evf: add
   driver to kernel build system")
 - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc ("xfrm: Add
   file to document IPsec corner case")
 - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
   3cd7920a ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
 - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c
   ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
 - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1
   ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
 - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4c ("net: introduce
   ethernet teaming device")
 - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c ("vxlan:
   virtual extensible lan")
 - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77 ("PM: Introduce
   core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev.  17)")
 - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd
   ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
 - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68 ("rcu:
   Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
 - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4ba (KVM: s390: API documentation)
 - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08 ("qeth: bridgeport
   support - basic control")
 - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08e ("sched: Add
   documentation for bandwidth control")
 - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f3 ("[SCSI] advansys:
   Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174 ("[SCSI] bfa: add
   readme file")
 - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
   driver documentation")
 - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
   cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
 - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf1 ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
   hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
   ca77329f ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
 - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621 ("[SCSI] osd:
   Documentation for OSD library")
 - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb
   ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
 - serial/driver was part of the initial repo
 - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e8412 ("n_gsm: add a
   documentation")
 - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e8 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca ("KVM: s390:
   diagnose call documentation")
 - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2 ("mm:
   dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
   page")
 - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4 ("w1: Add
   1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
 - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382 ("hdq:
   documentation for OMAP HDQ")
 - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86 ("x86, doc:
   Documentation for early microcode loading")
 - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade47 ("x86/doc:
   mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
 - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4 ("x86-64: Document
   some of entry_64.S")
 - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d8 ("x86: PAT
   documentation")

Moved files
 - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
   commit 37b83046 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
   the source code")
 - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
   commit 4172fe2f ("EFI stub documentation updates")
 - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
   efcfed9b ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
 - commit 5616c23a ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
   Doc/x86/i386"):
   * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
   * x86/boot.txt
   * x86/zero_page.txt
 - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4d
   ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")

Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
 - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990 ("memory.txt: remove
   stray information")
 - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198c ("Documentation:
   gpiolib: document new interface")
 - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae
   ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
 - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade ("tty: esp:
   remove broken driver")
 - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f66 ("[S390] remove tape
   block docu")
 - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171 ("mm: documentation:
   remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
 - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 02003667 ("acer-wmi:
   Delete out-of-date documentation")

Typos/misc issues
 - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
   030d794b ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
   authentication.")
 - commit b88cf73d ("net: add missing entries to
   Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
   * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
   * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
 - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139 ("w1: add
   1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
 - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a
   ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	[rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.

There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.

Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.

Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected.  Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).

v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.

While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Add "doubler" parameter to enable support for IDE doublers.

* Obsolete "ide=doubler" kernel parameter.

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Add "cdrom=" and "chs=" parameters.

* Obsolete "hdx=cdrom" and "hdx=cyls,heads,sects" kernel parameters.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Add "nodma|noflush|noprobe|nowerr=" parameters.

* Obsolete "hdx=noprobe|none|nowerr|nodma|noflush" kernel parameters.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove obsoleted "hdx=autotune" kernel parameter
  (we always auto-tune PIO if possible nowadays).

* Remove no longer needed ide_drive_t.autotune flag.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

We have "vlb|pci_clock=" parameters now.

Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters.

* Make probe_* and cmd640_vlb variables static.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameter
(it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004).

Then remove corresponding code from ide_probe_port()
and no longer used ->reset field from ide_hwif_t.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameter
(it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Add "ignore_cable" parameter:

* "ide_core.ignore_cable=[interface_number]" boot option if IDE is built-in
  (i.e. "ide_core.ignore_cable=1" to force ignoring cable for "ide1")

* "ignore_cable=[interface_number]" module parameter (for ide_core module)
  if IDE is compiled as module

v2:
* Add ide_port_apply_params() helper
  - use it in ide_device_add_all() and ide_scan_port().

* Make it possible to later disable ignoring cable detection by passing
  "[interface_number]:0" to /sys/module/ide_core/parameters/ignore_cable
  (however sysfs interface is not enabled yet since it needs some other
   IDE changes to make it work reliable).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES deserves its own host driver:

* Add drivers/ide/legacy/ide-4drives.c and move "4drives" support there.

* Add ide-4drives.o in the link order after all other legacy host
  drivers enabled by "ide0=" options (they all are mutually exclusive).

* Make ide-4drives host driver probe itself for IDE devices instead of
  indirectly depending on ide_generic host driver.

* Add "probe" module parameter to ide-4drives and update documentation.

v2:
* s/paramater/parameter/ in ide.txt. (Noticed by Randy Dunlap)

v3:
* s/ide_4drives.probe/ide-4drives.probe/ in help entry.
  (Noticed by Sergei Shtylyov)

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove obsoleted "idex=base[,ctl[,irq]]" kernel parameters
  and update Documentation/ide/ide.txt.

* Remove no longer needed ide_forced chipset type.

v2:
* is_chipset_set[] -> is_chipset_set in ide.c.

* Documentation/ide/ide.txt fix.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD hack from init_hwif_default()
  ("hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" kernel parameters should be used
  instead if somebody wishes to use the old "hd" driver).

* Make CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY config option available also when
  IDE subsystem is used and update help entry.

* Remove no longer needed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE config option.

v2:
* Update documentation to suggest "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe"
  instead of obsoleted "ide0=noprobe".

* Update Documentation/ide/ide.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Add 'struct class ide_port_class' ('ide_port' class) and a 'struct
  device *portdev' ('ide_port' class device) in ide_hwif_t.

* Register 'ide_port' class in ide_init() and unregister it in
  cleanup_module().

* Create ->portdev in ide_register_port () and unregister it in
  ide_unregister().

* Add "delete_devices" class device attribute for unregistering IDE devices
  on a port and "scan" one for probing+registering IDE devices on a port.

* Add ide_sysfs_register_port() helper for registering "delete_devices"
  and "scan" attributes with ->portdev.  Call it in ide_device_add_all().

* Document IDE warm-plug support in Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt.

v2:
* Convert patch from using 'struct class_device' to use 'struct device'.
  (thanks to Kay Sievers for doing it)

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.

It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted
(they are layering violation and should be dealt with in the same
 way as done by libata - device-mapper should be used instead).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted
(nowadays device-driver binding can be changed at runtime through sysfs
 and it can also be dealt with using per device driver parameters).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* "hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq" should be "hdx=cyls,heads,sects".

* "hdx=" is for "x" from 'a' to 'u', "idex=" is for "x" from '0' to '9'.

* "idex=noautotune" is long gone.

* Obsoleted "ide0=" parameters were already removed from the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Add/update ide/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Cleanup some of Documentation directory:
Move Documentation/ide.txt to the ide/ sub-directory.
Fix trailing whitespace while there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Also, cleanup whitespace and update comments.

Bart:
- remove reference to drivers/block/ide.c
- move driver documentation to Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txt

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Move ide-floppy historical changelog to
Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-floppy.1996-2002

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>