linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 00/19] Kernel API Specification Framework

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Message-ID: <20250617130850.4f558701@pumpkin>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:08:50 +0100
From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@...il.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
 workflows@...r.kernel.org, tools@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/19] Kernel API Specification Framework

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:48:39 -0400
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patch series introduces a framework for formally specifying kernel
> APIs, addressing the long-standing challenge of maintaining stable
> interfaces between the kernel and user-space programs. As outlined in
> previous discussions about kernel ABI stability, the lack of
> machine-readable API specifications has led to inadvertent breakages and
> inconsistent validation across system calls and IOCTLs.

Ugg, looks horrid.
Going to be worse than things like doxygen for getting out of step with
the actual code and grep searches are going to hit the comment blocks.

	David