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Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b00ff29-fd35-42fe-83d9-73811356b73e@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:37:05 +0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Do not hardcode kernel major version number To: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation , Linux Kernel Workflows Cc: Dante Strock , Randy Dunlap References: <20250913015147.9544-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <87tt12e5zf.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Language: en-US From: Bagas Sanjaya In-Reply-To: <87tt12e5zf.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/16/25 23:07, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > I have to admit that I'm not at all convinced that this change brings > clarity to the document; using real numbers grounds the text in a way > that "a.x" does not. > > If we really think it's embarrassing to still say "5.whatever" here, > perhaps we should just change it to "9.whatever" and be good for a long > time? > I think that's a good alternative idea. 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