Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>> So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for
>> folks who only have Python 2.
>
> Is this a problem?  Python 2 is EOL.
>
> Everybody who wants to use Python
> must install Python 3.

I honestly don't know, but people do keep things around for a
surprisingly long time.

>>  As I said before, this is a step that we
>> knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess
>> this decides for us :)
>>
>> That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams.  I assume this
>> is a 5.12 change?
>
> No, I am planning to do this for 5.11
> (a pull request this week if there is no objection).

I'm not going to truly object and try to block this, but I worry that
it's soon and without warning.  It's not a change I would merge for
-rc7.  IMO this should be done in 5.12 with an appropriate note added to
Documentation/process/changes.rst as well.

Thanks,

jon