From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <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: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:06:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526A88DE.2040502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvzqoJFHjXJ=WMR6Dyjg804=x0CkqHV2gXSfKUBgx2ktVA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/24/2013 09:57 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
> And what about the kernel make "interface", is it considered also as non-ABI?
>
> E.g.
> Before ffee0de (x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT)
> "make defconfig ARCH=x86" produced a i386 defconfig. Now it produces a
> x86_64 defconfig.
> I'm sure some build scripted failed badly.
>
>
Definitely not ABI, although obviously not a completely "break blindly"
either.
-hpa
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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
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 [this message]
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