Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] edac: Add an API for edac device to report for multiple errors

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:47:07AM +0000, Robert Richter wrote:
> If you move to static inline for edac_device_handle_{ce,ue} the
> symbols vanish and this breaks the abi. That's why the split in two
> patches.

ABI issues do not concern upstream. And that coming from me working at a
company who dance a lot to make ABI happy.

Also, I'm missing the reasoning why you use the ABI as an argument at
all: do you know of a particular case where people are thinking of
backporting this or this is all hypothetical.

> Your comment to not have a __ version as a third variant of the
> interface makes sense to me. But to keep ABI your patch still needs to
> be split.

Not really - normally, when you fix ABI issues with symbols
disappearing, all of a sudden, you add dummy ones so that the ABI
checker is happy.

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