Re: [PATCH] tracing: Set user_events to BROKEN

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 30 2022 - 15:28:37 EST


On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:54 AM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we are not ready to commit to an ABI, perhaps it would be safer to ensure
> that include/uapi/linux/user_events.h is not installed with the uapi headers
> until it's ready.

I don't th8ink the uapi matters if the code then cannot be used.
There's no regression in that.

That said, if we leave the code in the kernel source tree, I feel like
we should probably at least compile-test it.

So maybe it should be marked as

depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST

instead?

Linus