linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/17] ABI: sysfs-bus-pci: add documentation for modalias

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Message-ID: <YVLy6ouDppRSp2Pk@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:48:10 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     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>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/17] ABI: sysfs-bus-pci: add documentation for modalias

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:59:39PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Even being available since 2005, there's no documentation for
> modalias.
> 
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
> See [PATCH 00/17] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1632750608.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> index 191cbe9ae5ed..1eeac7f59672 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> @@ -187,6 +187,24 @@ Description:
>  		The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
>  		Physical Function this device associates with.
>  
> +What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../modalias
> +Date:		May 2005

Wow, I was not good at documenting this stuff back then, sorry about
that :(

I'll queue this series up now, thanks so much for working on this!

greg k-h