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

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Fri Aug 4 22:52:48 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 10:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 01:14:44PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Probably, but lots of times this would be a false-positive as
> documentation shows up in a later patch in the series to make things
> easier to review.
> 
> But if you want to try to add it to checkpatch, be my guest, last time I
> tried I gave up in as the regexes there brought me to tears...

Piker.  Even Linus has adapted to perl regexes...

cheers, Joe


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