Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] workflows, scripts: harmonize and cleanup

Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-30T16:36:09Z

> cleanup and harmonize output of scripts/ver_linux and table in changes.rst
>
> ver_linux:
> fix path to changes.rst
> Add missing tools in ver_linux
> bash, bc, bindgen, btrfs-progs, Clang, gdb, GNU awk, GNU tar,
> GRUB, GRUB2, gtags, iptables, kmod, mcelog, mkimage, openssl,
> pahole, Python, Rust, Sphinx, squashfs-tools
>
> changes.rst:
> add reference to ./scripts/ver_linux
> needn't -> do not need to
> add gdb version 7.2 as mentioned in:
> Documentation/process/debugging/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
> scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>

Applied, but the changelog now reads:

docs: changes/ver_linux: fix entries and add several tools

Some of the entries in both Documentation/process/changes.rst and
script/ver_linux were obsolete; update them to reflect the current way of
getting version information.

Many were missing altogether; add the relevant information for:

bash, bc, bindgen, btrfs-progs, Clang, gdb, GNU awk, GNU tar,
GRUB, GRUB2, gtags, iptables, kmod, mcelog, mkimage, openssl,
pahole, Python, Rust, Sphinx, squashfs-tools

Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

jon