From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Manuel Ebner" <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Federico Vaga" <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>,
"Akira Yokosawa" <akiyks@gmail.com>,
"Daniel Pereira" <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>,
"Carlos Bilbao" <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>,
"Avadhut Naik" <avadhut.naik@amd.com>,
"Alex Shi" <alexs@kernel.org>,
"Yanteng Si" <si.yanteng@linux.dev>,
"Dongliang Mu" <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>,
"Hu Haowen" <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"Emil Tsalapatis" <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
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"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nick Desaulniers" <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
"Bill Wendling" <morbo@google.com>,
"Justin Stitt" <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Docs: changes.rst: rename file and references and add links
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:15:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6f7jx8x.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260812121603.1633270-2-manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>
Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org> writes:
> The current name does not reflect the content of the file, the new name
> does so. With the links legacy references should continue to work.
>
> Change name to software-requirements.rst
> Change names in Doc/translations/*
> Add link Doc/process/changes.rst to software-version.rst.
> Add link Doc/Changes to software-version.rst.
> Add links in Doc/translations/*
> Change changes.rst to software-version.rst inChange changes.rst to software-version.rst in
> Documentation/*
> README
> samples/bpf/README.rst
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> scripts/ver_linux
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>
> ---
> Documentation/Changes | 2 +-
> Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 6 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/filesystems/locks.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 576 +----------------
> Documentation/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../process/software-requirements.rst | 575 +++++++++++++++++
> .../translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst | 554 +----------------
> .../translations/it_IT/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../it_IT/process/software-requirements.rst | 553 +++++++++++++++++
> .../translations/ja_JP/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../translations/ko_KR/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../translations/pt_BR/process/changes.rst | 577 +-----------------
> .../pt_BR/process/software-requirements.rst | 576 +++++++++++++++++
> .../translations/sp_SP/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../translations/zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst | 6 +-
> .../translations/zh_CN/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> .../translations/zh_TW/admin-guide/README.rst | 6 +-
> .../translations/zh_TW/process/howto.rst | 2 +-
> README | 2 +-
> samples/bpf/README.rst | 2 +-
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +-
> scripts/ver_linux | 2 +-
> 23 files changed, 1730 insertions(+), 1727 deletions(-)
> mode change 100644 => 120000 Documentation/process/changes.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/process/software-requirements.rst
> mode change 100644 => 120000 Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/software-requirements.rst
> mode change 100644 => 120000 Documentation/translations/pt_BR/process/changes.rst
> create mode 100644 Documentation/translations/pt_BR/process/software-requirements.rst
That is a *lot* of churn just because you don't like the name of the
file. The naming is not perfect - it is the result of decades of
history - but I think we're better to live with it.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-12 12:08 [PATCH 0/5] Docs: changes.rst: Rework Manuel Ebner
2026-08-12 12:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] Docs: changes.rst: rename file and references and add links Manuel Ebner
2026-08-12 13:07 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-08-12 13:15 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-08-12 12:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst: Refine language Manuel Ebner
2026-08-12 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst: add lzop, lzma and ip-route2 Manuel Ebner
2026-08-12 12:22 ` [PATCH 4/5] Docs: pt_BR, it_IT: software-requirements.rst: copy tables from source Manuel Ebner
2026-08-12 12:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst replace optional tag with footnotes Manuel Ebner
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