linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:24:50 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst



On 8/24/22 01:08, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> A quick 'grep "5\.x" . -R' on Documentation shows that README.rst,
> 2.Process.rst and applying-patches.rst all mention the version number "5.x"
> for kernel releases.
> 
> As the next release will be version 6.0, updating the version number to 6.x
> in README.rst seems reasonable.
> 
> The description in 2.Process.rst is just a description of recent kernel
> releases, it was last updated in the beginning of 2020, and can be
> revisited at any time on a regular basis, independent of changing the
> version number from 5 to 6. So, there is no need to update this document
> now when transitioning from 5.x to 6.x numbering.
> 
> The document applying-patches.rst is probably obsolete for most users
> anyway, a reader will sufficiently well understand the steps, even it
> mentions version 5 rather than version 6. So, do not update that to a
> version 6.x numbering scheme.

Yeah. And I suspect that scripts/patch-kernel is even more obsolete
than applying-patches.rst.

> Update version number from 5.x to 6.x in README.rst only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Bagas- I don't have a problem with this patch.

If it could be automated easily, that would be OK too.

Or I might add that v6.x patches are located at
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/

and v5.x patches are located at
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/

thanks.
-- 
~Randy