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misc: discontinue per kernel tags 

The per kernel tags of the form [wp]${ver}-${kver} turned out to do more
harm than good as they confused many users of the repository and led them
to build modules from old snapshots, resulting in a lot of invalid bug
reports. Therefore they will no longer be provided for kernel >= 6.0.
Update README to reflect this change.
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@ -12,14 +12,18 @@ a particular version of Player or Workstation.
From these tags, branches "player-${version}" and "workstation-${version}"
are forked. These branches track changes needed to build these modules
against recent kernel versions. Tag "p${ver}-k${kver}" marks the set of
changes needed to build modules from Player ${ver} against kernel ${kver},
e.g. p12.5.5-k4.11 is for Player 12.5.5 and kernel 4.11; similar naming
scheme "w${ver}-k${kver}" is used for Workstation modules. In general,
later points in the branch should also work with older kernels (e.g.
p12.5.5-k4.11 with kernel 4.10) but it's not guaranteed; it may happen that
a fix for new kernel version may be too complicated to make also work with
older versions.
against recent kernel versions. In general, one should always use current
branch head for the build.
In the past, tags in the form "w${ver}-k${ver}" and "p${ver}-k${kver}" were
also provided to mark the snapshots deemed sufficient to build modules for
Workstation/Player version $ver at the moment of kernel $kver release. This
practice turned to be a bad idea; more often an issue affecting older
kernel versions was discovered later than a fix for newer kernel did not
work with older ones. Unfortunately, misinterpreting these tags often
resulted in building modules from old branch snapshots and reporting issues
that have been addressed long ago. Therefore, starting with kernel 6.0,
these per kernel tags are no longer going to be provided.
At the moment, changes are tested to build against all (vanilla) kernel
releases starting with 4.9.