From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADCB4B01 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E9243CA for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:53:53 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Theodore Ts'o Message-ID: <20170804175353.GB13252@kroah.com> References: <20170804022639.p27oliuinqqatar2@thunk.org> <20170804160454.GC13098@kroah.com> <20170804171444.gv7ev6zhkj3bzf5u@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170804171444.gv7ev6zhkj3bzf5u@thunk.org> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] ABI feature gates? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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