[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] ABI feature gates?

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) mtk.manpages at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 11:27:46 UTC 2017


On 4 August 2017 at 10:57, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>
>> > One way that we could try to make things better is by having some kind
>> > of semi-automated system which monitors changes in include/uapi/*.h in
>> > linux-next.
>>
>> It's unfortunately just uapi though, and for sysfs it's a bit more
>> difficult to define a pathname pattern to watch for.
>
> I think that Michael Kerrisk has a big list of regexps in this direction.

The list I have is not very big, and is rather unsophisticated (and
manually maintained). But it helps me spot some new features that I
would otherwise miss and that should be documented in the man pages.

Cheers,

Michael


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