Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be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.

A document isn't an API, it's not like users need time to somehow
migrate away from it.  If people will be affected by the removal of a
document, we probably shouldn't remove it.  The situation here is that
nobody is likely to care.  *Somebody* is probably still updating their
kernel with patches somewhere, but they know what they are doing by now.

A script is different, of course; removing that might actually affect
people.

jon