linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 17/30] ABI: sysfs-class-gnss: use wildcards on What definitions

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Message-ID: <YUhW9wbwnAXIj+oN@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:40:07 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/30] ABI: sysfs-class-gnss: use wildcards on What
 definitions

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:59:44AM +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: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-gnss | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-gnss b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-gnss
> index c8553d972edd..9650f3a7fc03 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-gnss
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-gnss
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -What:		/sys/class/gnss/gnssN/type
> +What:		/sys/class/gnss/gnss<N>/type
>  Date:		May 2018
>  KernelVersion:	4.18
>  Contact:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>