Linux Kernel ABI Tracker

Linux Kernel ABI Tracker

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

Hi all,

I've created a new tool for Linux developers: Kernel ABI Tracker 
(http://upstream-tracker.org/kernel/).

This tool looks for new releases of the Linux kernel, builds them and 
tracks API/ABI changes using a set of basic tools: ABI Dumper and ABI 
Compliance Checker.

More info: 
http://wiki.rosalab.com/en/index.php/Blog:ROSA_Planet/Linux_Kernel_ABI_Tracker

Hope it would be useful for someone in this mail list.

Thanks.

-- 
Andrey Ponomarenko, ROSA Lab.

Linux kernel ABI tracker

[Ponomarenko Andrey]

Hello,

This is a tracker of ABI changes in the new upstream releases of the Linux kernel (defconfig, x86_64): https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/linux/

The tracker performs backward binary compatibility analysis of all public exported symbols and data types (declared in the ".ksymtab" and  ".ksymtab_gpl" sections of the vmlinux binary + system calls) and lists all added/removed symbols.

The source code of the tool is published on github: https://github.com/lvc/kernel-abi-tracker

The tool can be used to analyze downstream kernels as well. See README of the project.

Enjoy!