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Message-ID: <878r0ijdh5.fsf@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 11:08:38 +0300
From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, Jonathan Corbet
 <corbet@....net>, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>, Abhinav Kumar
 <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>, Dmitry Baryshkov
 <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, Marijn Suijten
 <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>
Cc: workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
 linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: document python version used for compilation

On Thu, 09 May 2024, Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org> wrote:
> The drm/msm driver had adopted using Python3 script to generate register
> header files instead of shipping pre-generated header files. Document
> the minimal Python version supported by the script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index 5685d7bfe4d0..8d225a9f65a2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ cpio                   any              cpio --version
>  GNU tar                1.28             tar --version
>  gtags (optional)       6.6.5            gtags --version
>  mkimage (optional)     2017.01          mkimage --version
> +Python (optional)      3.5.x            python3 --version

Python 3.5 reached end-of-life 3½ years ago [1]. What's the point in
using anything older than the oldest supported version of Python,
i.e. 3.8 at this time?

BR,
Jani.


[1] https://devguide.python.org/versions/



>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
>  
>  .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
>
> ---
> base-commit: 704ba27ac55579704ba1289392448b0c66b56258
> change-id: 20240509-python-version-a8b6ca2125ff
>
> Best regards,

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel