[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] checkpatches.sh: Add checks for ABI symbol addition

[Thomas Monjalon]

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".