On 8/24/22 01:08, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > A quick 'grep "5\.x" . -R' on Documentation shows that README.rst, > 2.Process.rst and applying-patches.rst all mention the version number "5.x" > for kernel releases. > > As the next release will be version 6.0, updating the version number to 6.x > in README.rst seems reasonable. > > The description in 2.Process.rst is just a description of recent kernel > releases, it was last updated in the beginning of 2020, and can be > revisited at any time on a regular basis, independent of changing the > version number from 5 to 6. So, there is no need to update this document > now when transitioning from 5.x to 6.x numbering. > > The document applying-patches.rst is probably obsolete for most users > anyway, a reader will sufficiently well understand the steps, even it > mentions version 5 rather than version 6. So, do not update that to a > version 6.x numbering scheme. Yeah. And I suspect that scripts/patch-kernel is even more obsolete than applying-patches.rst. > Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst only. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++-------------- > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Bagas- I don't have a problem with this patch. If it could be automated easily, that would be OK too. Or I might add that v6.x patches are located at https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ and v5.x patches are located at https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ thanks. -- ~Randy
