Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel major version number

Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-22T14:07:47Z

> On 9/22/25 19:53, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The big picture section of 2.Process.rst currently hardcodes major
>>> version number to 5 since fb0e0ffe7fc8e0 ("Documentation: bring process
>>> docs up to date"). As it can get outdated when it is actually
>>> incremented (the recent is 6 and will be 7 in the near future),
>>> arbitrarily bump it to 9, giving a headroom for a decade.
>>>
>>> Note that the version number examples are kept to illustrate the
>>> numbering scheme.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
>>
>> Just FYI, I've pretty much shut docs down for the upcoming merge window.
>> I'm probably not the only one.
>>
>
> So it is slated for 6.19 then?

If it's not in docs-next (or some other subsystem tree) now then yes, it
will wait another cycle. We are at -rc7, after all.

jon