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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig
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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