linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] docs: reporting-issues.rst: link new document about regressions

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Date:   Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:23:57 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] docs: reporting-issues.rst: link new document
 about regressions

Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> writes:

> Make Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst point to the newly
> created document about regressions
> (Documentation/admin-guide/regressions-users.rst). This allows to
> shorten a few explanations the new document describes better and in more
> detail.
>
> While at it move the copyright hint to the end of the file, as suggested
> during review of the new documents about regressions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
> ---
>  .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst          | 60 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

[...]

> +You deal with a regression if some application or practical use case running
> +fine with one Linux kernel works worse or not at all with a newer version
> +compiled using a similar configuration. The document
> +'Documentation/admin-guide/regressions-users.rst' explains this in more detail.

Some of those quotes around file names are still sneaking in.

Thanks,

jon