linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Documentation: add a isolation strategy sysfs node for uacce

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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 10:00:40 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Kai Ye <yekai13@...wei.com>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wangzhou1@...ilicon.com, liulongfang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Documentation: add a isolation strategy sysfs
 node for uacce

On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:04:08PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 10:29:42AM +0800, Kai Ye wrote:
> > Update documentation describing sysfs node that could help to
> > configure isolation strategy for users in the user space. And
> > describing sysfs node that could read the device isolated state.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kai Ye <yekai13@...wei.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
> > index 08f2591138af..e09fd160d3fa 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
> > @@ -19,6 +19,32 @@ Contact:        linux-accelerators@...ts.ozlabs.org
> >  Description:    Available instances left of the device
> >                  Return -ENODEV if uacce_ops get_available_instances is not provided
> >  
> > +What:           /sys/class/uacce/<dev_name>/isolate_strategy
> > +Date:           Jul 2022
> 
> July was a while ago, you sent this patch in August :(
> 

Does the date in the sysfs documentation files serve any purpose besides making
people have to update their patchsets every month?

The kernel version number would be more useful to readers of the documentation,
and it wouldn't have to be updated quite as often.

- Eric