On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:52:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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. Sure.
> I won't pretend that I understand anything in this awk script :) > Stephen suggested that I clean it up and document it a bit, which is probably a good idea. > 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". Yeah, I can do that. New version in the AM Neil >
