Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:44:16 +0100 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols |
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On 10/24/2013 09:41 AM, Josh Triplett 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>
Good initiative.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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