From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:44:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5268DDE0.4090602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131024084104.GA2861@leaf>
On 10/24/2013 09:41 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 <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Good initiative.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 8:41 [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols Josh Triplett
2013-10-24 8:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-10-24 8:57 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-24 9:08 ` Josh Triplett
2013-11-10 22:03 ` Rob Landley
2013-10-25 15:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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