* [PATCH] docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches
@ 2019-02-10 17:12 Jonathan Neuschäfer
2019-02-11 15:30 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jonathan Neuschäfer @ 2019-02-10 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-doc
Cc: Jonathan Neuschäfer, Jonathan Corbet, Federico Vaga,
Markus Heiser, Alessia Mantegazza, Michael Rodin, Minghui Liu,
linux-kernel
As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1],
there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
---
Documentation/process/howto.rst | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
index 58b2f46c4f98..00c8ddd2ed2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
@@ -302,15 +302,6 @@ The file :ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst <stable_kernel_rule
in the kernel tree documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for
the -stable tree, and how the release process works.
-4.x -git patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree which are managed in a
-git repository (hence the name.) These patches are usually released
-daily and represent the current state of Linus' tree. They are more
-experimental than -rc kernels since they are generated automatically
-without even a cursory glance to see if they are sane.
-
Subsystem Specific kernel trees and patches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.20.1
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* Re: [PATCH] docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches
2019-02-10 17:12 [PATCH] docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches Jonathan Neuschäfer
@ 2019-02-11 15:30 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2019-02-11 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Neuschäfer
Cc: linux-doc, Federico Vaga, Markus Heiser, Alessia Mantegazza,
Michael Rodin, Minghui Liu, linux-kernel
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:12:59 +0100
Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:
> As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1],
> there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1.
>
> [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
There's a lot more stuff in that file needing fixing (including all of
the 4.x references) but one has to start somewhere...applied, thanks.
jon
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