On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:36:26PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit 51839e29cb5954470ea4db7236ef8c3d77a6e0bb upstream. > > > > Some distributions are about to switch to Python 3 support only. > > This means that /usr/bin/python, which is Python 2, is not available > > anymore. Hence, switch scripts to use Python 3 explicitly. > > I'd say this is unsuitable for -stable. > > Old distributions may not have python3 installed, and we should not > change this dependency in the middle of the series. What distro that was released in 2017 (the year 4.14.0 was released) did not have python3 on it? > Python is not listed in Documentation/Changes . Perhaps it should be? It's not required to build/boot, just these helper scripts. thanks, greg k-h
