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 6F9139C0 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96DBB14D for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:57:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall To: Jiri Kosina In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20170804022639.p27oliuinqqatar2@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andy Lutomirski , "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, 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. julia