From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752581AbbCIPjX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:39:23 -0400 Received: from m12-15.163.com ([220.181.12.15]:54787 "EHLO m12-15.163.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbbCIPjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:39:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 23:39:02 +0800 From: Yaowei Bai To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: corbet@lwn.net, trivial@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: make the README agnostic to version numbers Message-ID: <20150309153902.GA7742@bbox> References: <1425391683-3550-1-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com> <20150306155938.GC8369@treble.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150306155938.GC8369@treble.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CM-TRANSID: D8CowEDJB0aVvv1U7u3HAA--.1224S3 X-Coremail-Antispam: 1Uf129KBjvdXoWrtFW8CryfAF1DXF15WF1fCrg_yoWfZFg_Ca ykZFy8Cw40yF15XayDKry3KryUKayDZryYyF1DtFW8ArW7Xws8Xw1kWr4DZ3y3Ww4DWrsx KFnxJ3yvvr12gjkaLaAFLSUrUUUUUb8apTn2vfkv8UJUUUU8Yxn0WfASr-VFAUDa7-sFnT 9fnUUvcSsGvfC2KfnxnUUI43ZEXa7IU8tfHUUUUUU== X-Originating-IP: [114.216.24.30] X-CM-SenderInfo: xe1z5x5dretxi6rwjhhfrp/xtbBFAa3T1D+WXBDngAAsw Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:59:38AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:08:02PM +0800, Yaowei Bai wrote: > > As we have moved to 4.x, it should be reflected in README. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai > > --- > > README | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- > > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > Remove all references to Linux version numbers (except for the examples) > in the README so we won't have to update it again for Linux 5.0. It sounds great, but i think that would be more easily comprehensible with version numbers in README, especially for the ones who are not familiar with Linux kernel very much. Meanwhile, does it make sense for a software without version number in release file? On the other hand, it only need *one* patch to update the version numbers in README every several years, i.e. about 8 years and 4 years for 3.x and 4.x, respectively. Bai