Re: [PATCH] docs: document python version used for compilation

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 09 May 2024, Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The drm/msm driver had adopted using Python3 script to generate register
> header files instead of shipping pre-generated header files. Document
> the minimal Python version supported by the script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index 5685d7bfe4d0..8d225a9f65a2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ cpio                   any              cpio --version
>  GNU tar                1.28             tar --version
>  gtags (optional)       6.6.5            gtags --version
>  mkimage (optional)     2017.01          mkimage --version
> +Python (optional)      3.5.x            python3 --version

Python 3.5 reached end-of-life 3½ years ago [1]. What's the point in
using anything older than the oldest supported version of Python,
i.e. 3.8 at this time?

BR,
Jani.


[1] https://devguide.python.org/versions/



>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
>  
>  .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
>
> ---
> base-commit: 704ba27ac55579704ba1289392448b0c66b56258
> change-id: 20240509-python-version-a8b6ca2125ff
>
> Best regards,

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel