From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320AFC433E9 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2021 21:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E704C64EC8 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2021 21:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232320AbhBAVWc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2021 16:22:32 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:50674 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230094AbhBAVWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2021 16:22:30 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 16994 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:22:30 EST Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:281:8300:104d::5f6]) (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 66D3E384; Mon, 1 Feb 2021 21:21:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 66D3E384 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1612214509; bh=zFCLGfAujq4fIR8VwOuNF0Vsve0622fqbiBDx88X0K8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=EVyjPSnYscr9FSXgpl9ustjG4EMy7MWz4+J8hStXFNLzXhKJueffpwm0GmFJ0R08O VWxOTmaUV/yJWR3OU2DBRkreM2AV3+SyK8ziZWdVktlQnzt2V9GCVM8uHP7eMz6Txw FUBfXgnkipxQdRd7ME4Zl9iAFrCIyAV/pz+cUFIUSvfW1cZl8n8sgPhlXF6NSZdNB7 CMPMA2asNUTzEqEXNQUxWoHhf6pfATNUI91+vnfvwiGcuZWKMuisvie25d97xC+Waw AXfmmkhLjd+79DgryDlwHfkfwI/5gz4ysyTF8btHQjLPaYmsN+qgIixBOisn0LYXyt jY/NtCop4AXWA== From: Jonathan Corbet To: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Fenghua Yu , Michal Marek , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable In-Reply-To: References: <20210201010024.654526-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <87r1lzvj3q.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:21:48 -0700 Message-ID: <87czxjv5zn.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Masahiro Yamada writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for >> folks who only have Python 2. > > Is this a problem? Python 2 is EOL. > > Everybody who wants to use Python > must install Python 3. I honestly don't know, but people do keep things around for a surprisingly long time. >> As I said before, this is a step that we >> knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess >> this decides for us :) >> >> That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams. I assume this >> is a 5.12 change? > > No, I am planning to do this for 5.11 > (a pull request this week if there is no objection). I'm not going to truly object and try to block this, but I worry that it's soon and without warning. It's not a change I would merge for -rc7. IMO this should be done in 5.12 with an appropriate note added to Documentation/process/changes.rst as well. Thanks, jon