linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: add /sys/power documentation to Documentation/ABI

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Message-ID: <20060830225107.GA14946@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:51:07 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: add /sys/power documentation to Documentation/ABI

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> This ABI/ thing rather snuck under my radar (I saw it go past, but a lot of
> things go past).

It had a lot of review the first time around.  The second and third had
relatively little.

> It'll be good if it works, but it is going to take quite a lot of thought,
> effort and maintainer vigilance to be successful and to avoid becoming
> rotware.

I agree.

> I wonder how hard it would be to write a script which parses a diff, works
> out if it touches ABI things, complain if it doesn't alter
> Documentation/ABI/*?  Not very - it's just a matter of defining a suitable
> regexp.

That would be good to have.

> What _should_ be documented in there, anyway?
> 
> - syscalls, obviously.
> 
> - /proc?  If so, everything, or are there exceptions?
> 
> - /sys?  If so, everything, or are there exceptions?
> 
> - ioctl numbers and payloads?
> 
> - netlink messages?
> 
> - ethtool thingies?  netdev interface names?  /proc/iomem identifiers? 
>   module names?  kernel-thread comm[] contents?  The ABI is pretty fat.
> 
> scary.

Yes, our ABI is scary.  And yes, all of the above is needed to be
documented if we want to have a handle on this thing.

It is probably something that we can throw at the janitors list for the
existing stuff to get some help.

thanks,

greg k-h
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