Re: [PATCH] cxl/Documentation: Spell out globbed sysfs attribute names

[Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
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> 
> On 8/4/26 4:20 PM, Alison Schofield wrote:
> > Four entries in sysfs-bus-cxl use braced globs to document groups of
> > attributes. Where the glob factors out a common prefix, as in
> > cap_{pmem,ram,type2,type3}, no individual attribute name appears in
> > the file at all and none can be found by grep or get_abi.py search. In
> > every case the glob also keys get_abi.py validate on the glob string,
> > so duplicates against separately documented attributes go undetected.
> > 
> > Replace the globs with consecutive What: lines for each attribute.
> > These lines continue to share the existing metadata and description
> > and follow the format used in sysfs-driver-ufs and sysfs-bus-iio.
> > 
> > Also restore one missing blank line between entries.
> > 
> > Verify with:
> >   python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py -D Documentation/ABI/testing validate
> >   python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py search cap_pmem
> >   python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py search create_ram_region
> > 
> > validate reports no sysfs-bus-cxl warning, and both searches now return
> > the stanza where they returned nothing before.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> 
> Seems reasonable. One comment below.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> 

You're faster than Sashiko ;)
snip

> > +
> 
> Stray blank line?

It's mentioned in the commit log. 
"Also restore one missing blank line between entries."
Pattern is 2 blank lines btw entries.

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> >  What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/extended_linear_cache_size
> >  Date:		October, 2025
> >  KernelVersion:	v6.19
> > 
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