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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  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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