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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:57:43 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede03@...il.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@...edu>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/29] ABI: sysfs-bus-pci: use wildcards on What
 definitions

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 04:32:29PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> An "N" upper letter is not a wildcard, nor can easily be identified
> by script, specially since the USB sysfs define things like.
> bNumInterfaces. Use, instead, <N>, in order to let script/get_abi.pl
> to convert it into a Regex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> index d4ae03296861..191cbe9ae5ed 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Description:
>  		If the underlying VPD has a writable section then the
>  		corresponding section of this file will be writable.
>  
> -What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN
> +What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfn<N>
>  Date:		March 2009
>  Contact:	Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@...el.com>
>  Description:
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>