linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update version number references in README

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Message-ID: <20150302013129.GA15202@milliways>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 01:31:29 +0000
From:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
To:	Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update version number references in README

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:01:16PM +0800, Yaowei Bai wrote:
> As we have moved to 4.x, it should be reflected in README.
> 

 Not something I can affect, but just a couple of comments on what
looks like a useful, but unadventurous, change :

1. Firing patches at the list, without copying them to a maintainer,
often means that they are ignored.  Perhaps this should be sent to
the trivial maintainer (unless the documentation maintainer thinks
this is within his area - I have not looked to see if anybody admits
to maintaining this).

2. Perhaps you should also mention .xz variants ?  Actually, on a
version of tar from the last few years, tar -xf
linux-4.X.tar.{gz,bz,xz} "just works".  But I'm sure that some people
who deliberately test on antique userspace (and perhaps people who
do not use gnu tar) might take a different view on that.

ĸen
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