linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report

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Message-ID: <eade01af-a188-9268-c866-45545d0e5b26@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:42:40 +0100
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and
 sending the report

Am 19.11.20 um 01:17 schrieb Jonathan Corbet:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100
> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> wrote:
> 
>> That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the
>> details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a
>> lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better, more modern script
>> would likely resist in tools/, which would increase chances that distros
>> shipping it as part of packages like "linux-tools".
> 
> [...] It's been patched a couple of
> times this year, so somebody is paying attention.

Ugh, why haven't I checked for this? Argh :-/

>  Probably safest to just leave it there.

Agreed, thx for pointing it out.

Ciao, Thorsten