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 a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be 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 It already says: This document is obsolete.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
