15/01/2018 20:05, Neil Horman: > Recently, some additional patches were added to allow for programmatic > marking of C symbols as experimental. The addition of these markers is > dependent on the manual addition of exported symbols to the EXPERIMENTAL > section of the corresponding libraries version map file. The consensus > on review is that, in addition to mandating the addition of symbols to > the EXPERIMENTAL version in the map, we need a mechanism to enforce our > documented process of mandating that addition when they are introduced. > To that end, I am proposing this change. It is an addition to the > checkpatches script, which scan incoming patches for additions and > removals of symbols to the map file, and warns the user appropriately
Thanks for working on this. I won't pretend that I understand anything in this awk script :) I think it would be better to put this code in a new script, let's say check-symbol-change.sh, and call it in checkpatches.sh. It would be just moving functions, add your copyright, and list the new script in your MAINTAINERS section "ABI versioning".
