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

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Message-ID: <20150319151158.55f42b3b@lwn.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:11:58 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: Update version number reference

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:22:56 -0800
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:

> When 4.0 is released, the README should reflect the new numbering.

OK, I've applied this because it came in first.  There were two other
contenders, from Yaowei Bai and Josh Poimbeuf (copied) that all did
mostly the same thing, but Josh was trying to make it
version-independent. 

May I point something out, though?  All three of you did something like:

-     bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+     bzip2 -dc linux-4.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

without noticing the fact that .bz2 files haven't been available from
kernel.org for a while.  Much less that installation from tarballs must
be getting rare, and people shouldn't put them in /usr/src in any case.

In other words, this file is pretty crufty in quite a few ways that just
tweaking the version number will not fix.  Given enough time I'll try to
take a swing at it, but if anybody wants to bring it into the current
era, that would be most welcome.

Thanks,

jon
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