On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:24 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. > Randy, would you know if there are still users out there? Would it help to replace this script with a minimal script that only reports to "Please use git to obtain a recent repository. Update versions and apply patches with git in a controlled way.". If someone complains, we revert the patch. If no one complains within a year or two, we could consider shutting down the infrastructure creating those patch archives as well, and delete the documentation referring to that. Lukas
