Received: by 2002:a05:6a10:16a7:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id gp39csp53558pxb; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:19:42 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJy9VS3PdHbsg2EhQSW7rGzE+C3zkoMfXYCOSBHsG5k76BkHV84PfKV7p6e4+FqmBHgmcj34 X-Received: by 2002:a50:fe14:: with SMTP id f20mr26939360edt.61.1605745182711; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:19:42 -0800 (PST) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1605745182; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=Po1TPaEzf8ZzW52wjlMh4/52nULbHV2bDbpZZAvcYJAyBfwJCf7gRi/I3kaJ2VJTvw Ex3MJmAW0tpKq7G32mTIGihSHyohxKbsrUt0CcWO/CF/uuYlaje8SdEiaHqGgS5B6Zl3 r6WSUxZGYtCzz7/98R6wqqzn2IDKEalMMDMbZ/vTTRshCpEWRzA7ZR7iig0O87Jy31iD cnD83LP8evm9jTIEec6fmLoJpJTGY5abpVZUtf3ybvjshaBNKrFAh/1KyS/48wQizLxM uN8Mwk4Q1fz+qGK9xbvE7gF4RZmNX3+ACdO0X8PDv5dx/yXGLOG1uutOpVnL/xa8lGp0 FXfw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :organization:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from :date; bh=Dge56CNWNsQegyd6MSSvH/sMyYAGa2ddQRnNwEn9iMU=; b=a2g87kz8w+xvcSa6fU7aycQHOt+OVv6UqAEyHokW95b4gcwkRY7Gntf94SojlVvyhj xmW/wEY8Ksn/INWzXewISeb4XSUL0No/Z4s4wUL1U6tbmkUM/W2Fm/awORLYAsymda4R FlkENuIgUX4CDgQSKi2auPCUmWzwZtQfVSpfnc5e5L+0Ngb51dhrXjpFHDqQFXUZrMus I6rfVNtVk4CFER4m8WEUQnRecavqQhcGsoJCUpii16bugvArogZgl9ewQjHqccmN0f5v JnqdAij1MZA5Hi94Rz4bwW+J2XQnmqWixQ7Q+FT3Q+VgQOKvb/fMQuvyE4mxdvelku7f eizQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [23.128.96.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id p7si17465699edx.415.2020.11.18.16.19.19; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:19:42 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726625AbgKSAR3 (ORCPT + 99 others); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:17:29 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45686 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726092AbgKSAR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:17:28 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5F1BC0613D4; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4943C2B2; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:17:27 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report Message-ID: <20201118171727.5105df6a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the > details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a > lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better, more modern script > would likely resist in tools/, which would increase chances that distros > shipping it as part of packages like "linux-tools". Unless you're really sure that nobody us using this script, for whatever reason, you can't really delete it, though. It's been patched a couple of times this year, so somebody is paying attention. Probably safest to just leave it there. jon