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Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:20:15 +0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Do not hardcode kernel major version number To: Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation , Linux Kernel Workflows Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Dante Strock References: <20250913015147.9544-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <61249b3d-3996-4d9f-814b-3794aa42c40b@infradead.org> <5fcf5f4a-1bbf-458e-8aab-8c66d326fd17@infradead.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Bagas Sanjaya In-Reply-To: <5fcf5f4a-1bbf-458e-8aab-8c66d326fd17@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/14/25 13:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Do we use the word "supermajor" anywhere? > $ grep ... > Nope. > > How about we call it MAJOR (like the top-level Makefile does; well, it calls it > both VERSION and MAJOR[1]), so use > m.x > That's more sense (and that is indeed the term I use in the patch subject). Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara