On 5/9/2024 9:48 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.barysh...@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.barysh...@linaro.org>
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Documentation/process/changes.rst | 1 +
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@@ -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
====================== ===============
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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_abhin...@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
