linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation for sysfs attributes for 3.3 (xen related)

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Message-ID: <20111118191033.GA24889@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:33 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation for sysfs attributes for 3.3 (xen related)

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:58:34AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 10:33 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:24:22AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 11/18/2011 10:19 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>> Please accept the following two patches that describe the
> >>> SysFS of some of the Xen drivers. Thank you.
> >>>
> >>> David Vrabel (2):
> >>>       xen: document balloon driver sysfs files
> >>>       xen: document backend sysfs files
> >>>
> >>>  Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend     |   75 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  .../ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-xen_memory     |   77 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  2 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> Documentation/ABI/ patches should go to GregKH.
> > 
> > Really?  I'm now in charge of the kernel ABI?
> 
> Well, you are the person who usually tells people that they need
> to provide Documentation/ABI/ patches for sysfs files AFAICT.

Yes, because that's a requirement of the whole kernel development
process, not because I'm the maintainer of Documentation/ABI.

Everyone should be reminding people of doing this, not just me.

thanks,

greg k-h
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