Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> 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 a warning to the doc, saying "This documentation is obsolete and will be 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
