From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Documentation <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dante Strock <dantestrock@hotmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel major version number
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:15:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bjm9bjm2.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250922074219.26241-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
> The big picture section of 2.Process.rst currently hardcodes major
> version number to 5 since fb0e0ffe7fc8e0 ("Documentation: bring process
> docs up to date"). As it can get outdated when it is actually
> incremented (the recent is 6 and will be 7 in the near future),
> arbitrarily bump it to 9, giving a headroom for a decade.
>
> Note that the version number examples are kept to illustrate the
> numbering scheme.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
I made a minor tweak to make it clear that 9.x is an example; applied,
thanks.
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-14 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-22 7:42 [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel major version number Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-22 12:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-22 14:01 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-22 14:07 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-22 22:23 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-10-14 15:15 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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