From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Documentation <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dante Strock <dantestrock@hotmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Do not hardcode kernel major version number
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:37:05 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b00ff29-fd35-42fe-83d9-73811356b73e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tt12e5zf.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
On 9/16/25 23:07, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I have to admit that I'm not at all convinced that this change brings
> clarity to the document; using real numbers grounds the text in a way
> that "a.x" does not.
>
> If we really think it's embarrassing to still say "5.whatever" here,
> perhaps we should just change it to "9.whatever" and be good for a long
> time?
>
I think that's a good alternative idea.
Thanks.
--
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-18 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-13 1:51 Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-13 21:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-14 3:18 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-14 6:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-14 7:20 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-16 16:07 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-18 3:37 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
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