This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore. In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
---
Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
index abd7dc7ae240..87825cf96f33 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Original by:
Last update:
2016-09-14
+.. note::
+
+ This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
+ manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead.
A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply
a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for
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