Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:24:55 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst | From | Randy Dunlap <> |
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Hi--
On 8/25/22 19:19, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:48:39PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> - applying-patches.rst should just go. I didn't prevail last time I >> tried to make that point, but I still don't think that we help >> anybody by dragging 1990's instructions around now. >> > > Hi jon, > > If we're about to rm applying-patches.rst, at least we also need to add > a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be > removed in the future.", while adding the same deprecation message on > scripts/patch-kernel. The script can still be usable and kept around for > a cycle. If no users complain, we will go ahead rm-ing.
It already says:
This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch`` manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead.
although the bit about "will be removed in the [near] future" would be a good addition.
-- ~Randy
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