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 055BD8A1 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com (mail-wm0-f65.google.com [74.125.82.65]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13266F2 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id y206so5334687wmd.5 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 04:29:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20170804022639.p27oliuinqqatar2@thunk.org> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 13:27:46 +0200 Message-ID: To: Julia Lawall Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] ABI feature gates? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 4 August 2017 at 10:57, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Jiri Kosina wrote: > >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> >> > One way that we could try to make things better is by having some kind >> > of semi-automated system which monitors changes in include/uapi/*.h in >> > linux-next. >> >> It's unfortunately just uapi though, and for sysfs it's a bit more >> difficult to define a pathname pattern to watch for. > > I think that Michael Kerrisk has a big list of regexps in this direction. The list I have is not very big, and is rather unsophisticated (and manually maintained). But it helps me spot some new features that I would otherwise miss and that should be documented in the man pages. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/