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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Oct 25 2013 - 11:06:32 EST


On 10/24/2013 09:57 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
> And what about the kernel make "interface", is it considered also as non-ABI?
>
> E.g.
> Before ffee0de (x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT)
> "make defconfig ARCH=x86" produced a i386 defconfig. Now it produces a
> x86_64 defconfig.
> I'm sure some build scripted failed badly.
>
>

Definitely not ABI, although obviously not a completely "break blindly"
either.

-hpa

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