lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2022]   [Aug]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst
Date
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be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.

A document isn't an API, it's not like users need time to somehow
migrate away from it. If people will be affected by the removal of a
document, we probably shouldn't remove it. The situation here is that
nobody is likely to care. *Somebody* is probably still updating their
kernel with patches somewhere, but they know what they are doing by now.

A script is different, of course; removing that might actually affect
people.

jon

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2022-08-26 15:19    [W:0.068 / U:0.272 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site