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

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 8/25/22 00:35, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:24 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
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>> On 8/24/22 01:08, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>>> A quick 'grep "5\.x" . -R' on Documentation shows that README.rst,
>>> 2.Process.rst and applying-patches.rst all mention the version number "5.x"
>>> for kernel releases.
>>>
>>> As the next release will be version 6.0, updating the version number to 6.x
>>> in README.rst seems reasonable.
>>>
>>> The description in 2.Process.rst is just a description of recent kernel
>>> releases, it was last updated in the beginning of 2020, and can be
>>> revisited at any time on a regular basis, independent of changing the
>>> version number from 5 to 6. So, there is no need to update this document
>>> now when transitioning from 5.x to 6.x numbering.
>>>
>>> The document applying-patches.rst is probably obsolete for most users
>>> anyway, a reader will sufficiently well understand the steps, even it
>>> mentions version 5 rather than version 6. So, do not update that to a
>>> version 6.x numbering scheme.
>>
>> Yeah. And I suspect that scripts/patch-kernel is even more obsolete
>> than applying-patches.rst.
>>
> 
> Randy, would you know if there are still users out there?
> Would it help to replace this script with a minimal script that only
> reports to "Please use git to obtain a recent repository. Update
> versions and apply patches with git in a controlled way.".

I have no idea, but I haven't seen any comments or references about it
in many years. I think it would be safe to remove it, at least on a
trial basis.


> If someone complains, we revert the patch. If no one complains within
> a year or two, we could consider shutting down the infrastructure
> creating those patch archives as well, and delete the documentation
> referring to that.

Yes, something like that is probably in our future.

-- 
~Randy