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

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Fri Aug 4 17:14:44 UTC 2017


On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 09:04:54AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> We could start searching linux-next for new additions of sysfs files
> (search for the ATTR macros), and complain that there are no matching
> Documentation/ABI/ updates at the same time.  I try to do that when
> reviewing patches that come through my trees, but yes, this is hard to
> keep up to date with.
> 
> Sounds like a good GSoC project though, setting up the infrastructure to
> do this in a semi-automated fashion.

This sounds like an obvious thing to add to checkpatch?

     	    	    	    	     	 - Ted


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