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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F749ECAAA3 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244754AbiHZCZF (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:25:05 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48974 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244154AbiHZCZC (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:25:02 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8CBC71BEC; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:24:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=20px62CgKdyZ2pwfDZVxI7cSmjDuUU373ANc6eVkIj4=; b=yxgPl1jZvpyjIwubW1Rm05LnHa lJDVcwL0p4dPy0yHblGQmZ7aZv/8J22Lpbzr5ZIBCBbsXT+pn/O+CqenKuuhZsO+/vrbZw/SkShrx 7m03p1qKYrMMaeugTxjH5X+eEJiS47WZtMAluQUs0lX/ba9ef0HxXQaH7sZO+UeLj3BtSNuzyH03/ yC0uxE0VvUMAmn5dDFSzeS143bmBbKxSsIwd7uh6968C7m3uLRqfzL7J+tS1ss425hAisaMBvjnUH IGfTwRmL65p+dvvxbeZzlJVKU9gzivlgNCMYrRVVF7g10CBYXR2UGby3EYcqYE/htZRJbNOtzIbHP xOoNwDeg==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::a6b3] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1oRP1m-005Eci-7b; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:24:58 +0000 Message-ID: <090894ea-3539-fdca-b470-49d72cb3228e@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:24:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.1.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst Content-Language: en-US To: Bagas Sanjaya , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lukas Bulwahn , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20220824080836.23087-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> <87a67syxa0.fsf@meer.lwn.net> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi-- On 8/25/22 19:19, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:48:39PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> - applying-patches.rst should just go. I didn't prevail last time I >> tried to make that point, but I still don't think that we help >> anybody by dragging 1990's instructions around now. >> > > Hi jon, > > If we're about to rm applying-patches.rst, at least we also need to add > a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be > removed in the future.", while adding the same deprecation message on > scripts/patch-kernel. The script can still be usable and kept around for > a cycle. If no users complain, we will go ahead rm-ing. It already says: This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch`` manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead. although the bit about "will be removed in the [near] future" would be a good addition. -- ~Randy