docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches

As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1],
there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
index bdd2eda81a1ca3d28256b711314218d7fca68a97..64deab5cfb3b6dc653200404a7a79f97f93bac03 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
@@ -302,15 +302,6 @@ The file :ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst <stable_kernel_rule
 in the kernel tree documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for
 the -stable tree, and how the release process works.
 
-4.x -git patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree which are managed in a
-git repository (hence the name.) These patches are usually released
-daily and represent the current state of Linus' tree.  They are more
-experimental than -rc kernels since they are generated automatically
-without even a cursory glance to see if they are sane.
-
 Subsystem Specific kernel trees and patches
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~