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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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...

good luck!

greg k-h