From patchwork Wed Oct 26 23:19:39 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jonathan Corbet X-Patchwork-Id: 79554 Delivered-To: patch@linaro.org Received: by 10.140.97.247 with SMTP id m110csp330491qge; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:20:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.98.220.141 with SMTP id c13mr8474107pfl.63.1477524044585; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id fe8si4108563pad.192.2016.10.26.16.20.44; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S941553AbcJZXU1 (ORCPT + 27 others); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:27 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:33797 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936365AbcJZXUM (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:12 -0400 Received: from tpad.lwn.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vena.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398C91540047; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:20:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathan Corbet To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH 11/11] docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rst Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:39 -0600 Message-Id: <1477523979-5837-12-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> References: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore. In the absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) -- 2.7.4 Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst index abd7dc7ae240..87825cf96f33 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Original by: Last update: 2016-09-14 +.. note:: + + This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch`` + manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead. A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for