Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfigand symbols

[H. Peter Anvin]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good initiative.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

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