[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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