From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kernel API Specification Framework
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:14:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abqzNIeZCM0ODiFm@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260318072410.72618011@foz.lan>
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 07:24:10AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:36:51 -0400
>Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 11:18:22AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> >On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:09:10 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> >> This enables static analysis tools to verify userspace API usage at compile
>> >> time, test generation based on formal specifications, consistent error handling
>> >> validation, automated documentation generation, and formal verification of
>> >> kernel interfaces.
>> >
>> >Could you give some examples? We have machine readable descriptions for
>> >Netlink interfaces, we approached syzbot folks and they did not really
>> >seem to care for those.
>>
>> Once the API is in a machine-readable format, we can write formatters to
>> output whatever downstream tools need.
>
>Kernel-doc already does that. The way it works is that it handles
>kernel-doc markups on two steps:
Cool, I'll take a look. We could throw away the source parser in the kapi tool
and just use the kerneldoc parse.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 15:09 [PATCH 0/9] Kernel API Specification Framework Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework Sasha Levin
2026-03-17 17:49 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 6:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-18 14:53 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 14:30 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 16:50 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 14:32 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 16:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel " Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:27 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_open Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:42 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-17 18:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-18 14:12 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 14:16 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_close Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:46 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 16:55 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_read Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_write Sasha Levin
2026-03-13 15:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] kernel/api: add runtime verification selftest Sasha Levin
2026-03-14 18:18 ` [PATCH 0/9] Kernel API Specification Framework Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-14 22:44 ` David Laight
2026-03-15 6:46 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-15 6:36 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 6:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-18 14:14 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-04-08 12:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-03-16 7:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2026-03-16 22:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-16 23:29 ` Sasha Levin
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