[adding Sasha and Jon to the CC, seem I forget to do that on the cover letter; sorry!] On 05.08.23 09:21, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > When adding something to this document earlier I noticed that readers > need to perform some back and forth to fully understand things; I also > noticed a few other aspects that seemed somewhat odd for me with my > background on writing and editing texts. > > Find attached a few patches to improve things. The first three are > mainly moving text around to a structure which is somewhat clearer. They > leave quite a few rough edges behind that are fixed in in the last patch > of the series, which changes a few other changes as well; thx to the > prep patches the diff should be relative straight-forward to understand. > > These patches are on-top of the following series that currently is in the > driver-core-testing branch: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1689056247.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ FWIW, in case anyone wonders how the text looks in the end, see: https://www.leemhuis.info/files/kernel/stable-rules/stable-kernel-rules.txt https://www.leemhuis.info/files/kernel/stable-rules/Everything%20you%20ever%20wanted%20to%20know%20about%20Linux%20-stable%20releases%20%e2%80%94%20The%20Linux%20Kernel%20documentation.html Ciao, Thorsten > v1: > * new patch-set based on patch 3/3 and other feedback to the following > patchset[1], but slit off into a seperate set with four distinct > patches to make it easier to see what is actually changed > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/d30686781c47c83927e0a41f6a1167a679fa822c.1689008220.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > * append one more patch for something that came up > > Thorsten Leemhuis (5): > docs: stable-kernel-rules: improve structure by changing headlines > docs: stable-kernel-rules: move text around to improve flow > docs: stable-kernel-rules: make the examples for option 1 a proper > list > docs: stable-kernel-rules: fine-tune various details > docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention that regressions must be prevented > > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 165 ++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: 016571b6d52deb473676fb4d24baf8ed3667ae21 > prerequisite-patch-id: b00970f680f3032fe8a7d0e3843b76d60c2f0458 > prerequisite-patch-id: 9926a13726e99d51800f52cb84e26ae971757467