On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:52:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

15/01/2018 20:05, Neil Horman:

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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