linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches

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Date:   Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:12:59 +0100
From:   Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        Alessia Mantegazza <amantegazza@...a.pv.it>,
        Michael Rodin <michael-git@...in.online>,
        Minghui Liu <minghui.liu.95@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches

As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1],
there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
---
 Documentation/process/howto.rst | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
index 58b2f46c4f98..00c8ddd2ed2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
@@ -302,15 +302,6 @@ The file :ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst <stable_kernel_rule
 in the kernel tree documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for
 the -stable tree, and how the release process works.
 
-4.x -git patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree which are managed in a
-git repository (hence the name.) These patches are usually released
-daily and represent the current state of Linus' tree.  They are more
-experimental than -rc kernels since they are generated automatically
-without even a cursory glance to see if they are sane.
-
 Subsystem Specific kernel trees and patches
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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