Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: dev-tools: Add UAPI checker documentation

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 4:54 PM John Moon <quic_johmoo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add detailed documentation for scripts/check-uapi.sh.
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkuapi.rst | 258 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst     |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 259 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/dev-tools/checkuapi.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkuapi.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkuapi.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2255066658e3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkuapi.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +============
> +UAPI Checker
> +============
> +
> +The UAPI checker (scripts/check-uapi.sh) is a shell script which checks UAPI
> +header files for userspace backwards-compatibility across the git tree.
> +
> +The script can produce false positives in some cases, so developers are


and false negatives too.







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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada