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

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Message-ID: <87bjm9bjm2.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:15:01 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, 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>, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Arbitrarily bump kernel
 major version number

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 As it can get outdated when it is actually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>

I made a minor tweak to make it clear that 9.x is an example; applied,
thanks.

jon