Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:57:15 +0300
From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: phase out Changes file that
 hasn't changed
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Hi,

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Looking at the bigger picture, the need for this file has simply
> passed.  It was trying to detail required versions of userspace
> packages, in order to cater to hand-crafted systems.  But now the
> majority of users get their userspace all at once from some kind
> of distro, and we are probably a lot more serious about avoiding
> breaking userspace than we were a dozen years ago.

Is there any file describing the needed tools (and minimum versions) to
_build_ the kernel? I agree that trying to describe such for the run-time
userspace does not belong to the kernel tree, but the required/supported
versions of build tools should be still maybe documented...

A.
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