This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore. In the absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst index abd7dc7ae240..87825cf96f33 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Original by: Last update: 2016-09-14 +.. note:: + + This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch`` + manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead. A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
