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

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Message-ID: <20201118171727.5105df6a@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:17:27 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
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

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".

Unless you're really sure that nobody us using this script, for whatever
reason, you can't really delete it, though.  It's been patched a couple of
times this year, so somebody is paying attention.  Probably safest to just
leave it there.

jon