From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2812DC2D0E4 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4380246DC for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725915AbgKSJmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:42:45 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47836 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725816AbgKSJmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:42:45 -0500 Received: from wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de [IPv6:2a01:488:42:1000:50ed:8234::]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2670AC0613CF; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip4d149f6e.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.159.110] helo=[192.168.66.101]); authenticated by wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) id 1kfgSf-00025U-8V; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:42:41 +0100 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20201118171727.5105df6a@lwn.net> From: Thorsten Leemhuis Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:42:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201118171727.5105df6a@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;linux@leemhuis.info;1605778965;49cc2f06; X-HE-SMSGID: 1kfgSf-00025U-8V Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Am 19.11.20 um 01:17 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the >> details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a >> lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better, more modern script >> would likely resist in tools/, which would increase chances that distros >> shipping it as part of packages like "linux-tools". > > [...] It's been patched a couple of > times this year, so somebody is paying attention. Ugh, why haven't I checked for this? Argh :-/ > Probably safest to just leave it there. Agreed, thx for pointing it out. Ciao, Thorsten