[PATCH] docs: document python version used for compilation
Abhinav Kumar
quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com
Thu May 9 18:59:52 UTC 2024
On 5/9/2024 9:48 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org> writes:
>
>> The drm/msm driver had adopted using Python3 script to generate register
>> header files instead of shipping pre-generated header files. Document
>> the minimal Python version supported by the script.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
>> ---
>> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> index 5685d7bfe4d0..8d225a9f65a2 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ cpio any cpio --version
>> GNU tar 1.28 tar --version
>> gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version
>> mkimage (optional) 2017.01 mkimage --version
>> +Python (optional) 3.5.x python3 --version
>> ====================== =============== ========================================
>
> Is it really optional - can you build the driver without it?
>
True, we cannot build the driver now without it. So we should be
dropping the optional tag.
With that addressed,
Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>
> This document needs some help... I'm missing a number of things that are
> *not* marked as "optional" (jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, pcmciautils, ppp,
> ...) and somehow my system works fine :) It would be nice to document
> *why* users might need a specific tool.
>
> But I guess we aren't going to do that now. I can apply this, but I do
> wonder about the "optional" marking.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
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