linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/get_abi.pl: ignore some temp files

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Message-ID: <871qax6t6k.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:59:15 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>, Randy Dunlap
 <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho
 Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/get_abi.pl: ignore some temp files

Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> writes:

> On Wed, 03 Jan 2024, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
>> It would have been nice to create all of those files with a .abi
>> extension so we didn't have to do this kind of blocklisting, but so be
>> it.
>
> Alternatively, we could switch to yaml instead of using another homebrew
> format with another homebrew parser, and rename them .yaml.

But ... we didn't invent that! :)

That is, of course, a better idea.  It would be a good project for
somebody.

Thanks,

jon