Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:03:29 -0600 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols |
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On 10/24/2013 04:08:30 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Josh Triplett > <josh@joshtriplett.org> 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> > > > --- > > > Documentation/ABI/README | 13 +++++++++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
Should I grab this, or is it already going in through somebody else's tree?
Rob
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