linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols

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Message-Id: <1384121009.1974.263@driftwood>
Date:	Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:03:29 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of
 Kconfig and symbols

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@...htriplett.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@...htriplett.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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