Re: [PATCH v2] ABI: Add abi checking utility

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Neil,

2015-02-27 08:48, Neil Horman:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:18:26PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > There was a request for an abi validation utiltyfor the ongoing ABI stability
> > work.  As it turns out there is a abi compliance checker in development that
> > seems to be under active development and provides fairly detailed ABI compliance
> > reports.  Its not yet intellegent enough to understand symbol versioning, but it
> > does provide the ability to identify symbols which have changed between
> > releases, along with details of the change, and offers develoeprs the
> > opportunity to identify which symbols then need versioning and validation for a
> > given update via manaul testing.
> > 
> > This script automates the use of the compliance checker between two arbitrarily
> > specified tags within the dpdk tree.  To execute enter the $RTE_SDK directory
> > and run:
> > 
> > ./scripts/validate_abi.sh $GIT_TAG1 $GIT_TAG2 $CONFIG
> > 
> > where $GIT_TAG1 and 2 are git tags and $CONFIG is a config specification
> > suitable for passing as the T= variable in the make config command.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
> 
> Whats the disposition of this, I don't see it in the repository yet.

I plan to review it carefully during next week.
We can integrate this tool until end of March, that's why it was not the
highest priority.