From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752420Ab3KJWDm (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:03:42 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f179.google.com ([209.85.214.179]:51711 "EHLO mail-ob0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752137Ab3KJWDe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:03:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:03:29 -0600 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols To: Josh Triplett Cc: Richard Weinberger , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Tao Ma , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <20131024090825.GA3217@leaf> (from josh@joshtriplett.org on Thu Oct 24 04:08:30 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1384121009.1974.263@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/24/2013 04:08:30 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Josh Triplett > wrote: > > > Discussion at Kernel Summit made it clear that the presence or > absence > > > of specific Kconfig symbols are not considered ABI, and that no > > > userspace (or bootloader, etc) should rely on them. > > > > > > In addition, kernel-internal symbols are well established as > non-ABI, > > > per Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt. > > > > > > Document both of these in Documentation/ABI/README, in a new > section for > > > notable bits of non-ABI. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett > > > --- > > > Documentation/ABI/README | 13 +++++++++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) Should I grab this, or is it already going in through somebody else's tree? Rob