From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAD772FB2; Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752309218; cv=none; b=d3Zoto/Nz5Pr/VlBE/g9ehSiHxNfT772qPHMAnJGPiwMJKfcI7pGGSFNVrVsgaR62d3X8jXdfrcVFcUtbRDEfihS9i1ITuvLp6WPStAlCgodOlEYBhRMeZ6tc//iJ+87KzYe6+rhmo5+YJ4yIrbPkkVNXxaLqdSAuuZoV3ow4CM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752309218; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6VWw+bBtOU9U2/e33hN+xWFLVR6yatLAPxZzl7SbJNQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=tVM7y7we2Qs/twPdAd/fH5CJwUVANzS8FIu8HbjyoRTrrIKDEhhi9/lb5YOgBB6Fz+9LmK4JWUsPpiwYYCZ4CVK6FIDOKydV1tH/MH9uIVI3l11PgfofB1jj2YXzqrY2/t7aYX9khuiH9UGvlBa9qjwQe6aejlnTvQLoOlgSCAw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=BLrBtGJW; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="BLrBtGJW" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 681C1C4CEEF; Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:33:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1752309217; bh=6VWw+bBtOU9U2/e33hN+xWFLVR6yatLAPxZzl7SbJNQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=BLrBtGJWr8t8EuUuF1KitSwtsdhjcVkm7yA3/9/v0SPnsfWTGsgArG0c37KqNC5FZ Z37V4hCTuE2wtvT5T+1lKkmEWide4h7GDLgNjmYmZGscJgAPABaYhvWKq8fs8dGG68 hCNpNVmeFhYdndohsRc8K1MDbvyXuxyd4JuN6z+QWhxVTH1EI9cKdCTeBPzViN+dy1 Wf7EhAxuECXW4VY00z2WWJtOB4yLLOH86VsdFfZZGEE2Kxjh72zulx41D1Ey5THtmp NRAuSk5U6nVqcUZ6FcbAX4k9NePoy4l0WMLB8nUrypDr0OqhZzWYcmYJ9EVs/Jbh0g y9zTO6eQRTGTQ== Received: from mchehab by mail.kernel.org with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uaVfr-0000000GsSz-1qLn; Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:33:35 +0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Linux Doc Mailing List Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "Jonathan Corbet" , "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa Subject: [PATCH v2 3/2] docs: changes: better document Python needs Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:32:38 +0200 Message-ID: <58c0cfb40e600af697b1665ffbc8e5bb3d859bb5.1752309145.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.0 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Python is listed as an optional dependency, but this is not true, as kernel-doc is called during compilation when DRM is enabled. Better document that. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index bccfa19b45df..6a7d7c1ee274 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 3.4.3 sphinx-build --version GNU tar 1.28 tar --version gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version mkimage (optional) 2017.01 mkimage --version -Python (optional) 3.9.x python3 --version +Python 3.9.x python3 --version GNU AWK (optional) 5.1.0 gawk --version ====================== =============== ======================================== @@ -154,6 +154,13 @@ Perl You will need perl 5 and the following modules: ``Getopt::Long``, ``Getopt::Std``, ``File::Basename``, and ``File::Find`` to build the kernel. +Python +------ + +At least Python 2.7 or 3.4 is required if CONFIG_DRM is selected to avoid +breaking compilation. Documentation build and kernel-doc won't produce +valid results if version is below 3.7. + BC -- -- 2.50.0