"Disappearing" file in Documentation/ABI/testing

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Mar 14 14:59:30 EDT 2022


On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am working on resubmitting a patch that adds an entry to
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block.  That file does not exist in
> Linus's most recent tree.  All (presumably) of the entries documented in
> that file have been merged into Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block.
> 
> How should I handle this?  Should my patch now add its entry to the
> "stable" file, or should it recreate the "testing" file?

It should be in "stable" as it is going to be a stable api :)



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