linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel major version number

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Message-ID: <ff092ff5-8ee1-4e91-b7f7-e5beb1d6d759@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:01:18 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Dante Strock <dantestrock@...mail.com>,
 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel major
 version number

On 9/22/25 19:53, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:
> 
>> The big picture section of 2.Process.rst currently hardcodes major
>> version number to 5 since fb0e0ffe7fc8e0 ("Documentation: bring process
>> docs up to date"). As it can get outdated when it is actually
>> incremented (the recent is 6 and will be 7 in the near future),
>> arbitrarily bump it to 9, giving a headroom for a decade.
>>
>> Note that the version number examples are kept to illustrate the
>> numbering scheme.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> 
> Just FYI, I've pretty much shut docs down for the upcoming merge window.
> I'm probably not the only one.
> 

So it is slated for 6.19 then?

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