Re: [PATCH] README: make the README agnostic to version numbers

From: Yaowei Bai
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 11:39:29 EST


On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:59:38AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:08:02PM +0800, Yaowei Bai wrote:
> > As we have moved to 4.x, it should be reflected in README.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > README | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> Remove all references to Linux version numbers (except for the examples)
> in the README so we won't have to update it again for Linux 5.0.

It sounds great, but i think that would be more easily comprehensible with version
numbers in README, especially for the ones who are not familiar with Linux kernel
very much. Meanwhile, does it make sense for a software without version number
in release file? On the other hand, it only need *one* patch to update the version
numbers in README every several years, i.e. about 8 years and 4 years for 3.x and
4.x, respectively.

Bai

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