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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:04:54 -0700
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> 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.

And perhaps do the same for new tracepoints.

I'm wondering if we should start documenting all tracepoints, and have
them not be added unless there's documentation with them.

-- Steve