On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:16:56AM +0100, Federico Vaga wrote: > hello, > > I have just a general observation for the community, not related to the > content of this patch, but related with the idea behind. > > Is it really important to specify the major release number in the documents? . > Can't we just use a generic x.y.z, or a more generic statement? > > When you open a documentation page like > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ > > you will see the release number in the top left corner, which implies that > what you read is (should be) valid for that version. And if you read from the > sources you should know which version you checked out, and if you don't you > can always verify. > > I do not see the added value of having those numbers in the documents, unless > the purpose is to highlight some specific exceptions. > > Am I missing some important reasons that justify these numbers? Nothing really, it's just "history". Given that the "major" number only changes every 3-4 years, it's not all that big of a deal. If you can think of a way to write these documents such that they do not depend on a version number at all, I'm sure no one would object to those patches. thanks, greg k-h
