From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC13EC5519F for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87110246BC for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726433AbgKSAR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:17:28 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45686 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726092AbgKSAR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:17:28 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5F1BC0613D4; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4943C2B2; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:17:27 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report Message-ID: <20201118171727.5105df6a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the > details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a > lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better, more modern script > would likely resist in tools/, which would increase chances that distros > shipping it as part of packages like "linux-tools". Unless you're really sure that nobody us using this script, for whatever reason, you can't really delete it, though. It's been patched a couple of times this year, so somebody is paying attention. Probably safest to just leave it there. jon