Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:24 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 8/24/22 01:08, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > A quick 'grep "5\.x" . -R' on Documentation shows that README.rst,
> > 2.Process.rst and applying-patches.rst all mention the version number "5.x"
> > for kernel releases.
> >
> > As the next release will be version 6.0, updating the version number to 6.x
> > in README.rst seems reasonable.
> >
> > The description in 2.Process.rst is just a description of recent kernel
> > releases, it was last updated in the beginning of 2020, and can be
> > revisited at any time on a regular basis, independent of changing the
> > version number from 5 to 6. So, there is no need to update this document
> > now when transitioning from 5.x to 6.x numbering.
> >
> > The document applying-patches.rst is probably obsolete for most users
> > anyway, a reader will sufficiently well understand the steps, even it
> > mentions version 5 rather than version 6. So, do not update that to a
> > version 6.x numbering scheme.
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> Yeah. And I suspect that scripts/patch-kernel is even more obsolete
> than applying-patches.rst.
>

Randy, would you know if there are still users out there?
Would it help to replace this script with a minimal script that only
reports to "Please use git to obtain a recent repository. Update
versions and apply patches with git in a controlled way.".

If someone complains, we revert the patch. If no one complains within
a year or two, we could consider shutting down the infrastructure
creating those patch archives as well, and delete the documentation
referring to that.

Lukas