From: John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
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"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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<libabigail@sourceware.org>, Jordan Crouse <jorcrous@amazon.com>,
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"Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala" <quic_satyap@quicinc.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: dev-tools: Add UAPI checker documentation
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:56:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <186dd23e-765f-584f-11e1-84b27f728abe@quicinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAQUgr0rrJv8ZvPKfyC8zZ1XX-Wv2Npw4iJXDGor=HSKyQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/4/2023 10:20 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 4:54 PM John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com> 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.
>
Yes, I'll expand the notes to include examples of false negatives in v3.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-06 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-01 7:54 [PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility John Moon
2023-03-01 7:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh John Moon
2023-03-03 21:09 ` Dodji Seketeli
2023-03-05 4:22 ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-03-05 17:08 ` John Moon
2023-03-01 7:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: dev-tools: Add UAPI checker documentation John Moon
2023-03-05 6:20 ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-03-06 16:56 ` John Moon [this message]
2023-03-01 17:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility Nick Desaulniers
2023-03-01 18:03 ` John Moon
2023-03-01 19:24 ` John Moon
2023-03-01 22:33 ` John Moon
2023-03-01 23:33 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-03-01 23:35 ` Trilok Soni
2023-03-01 23:52 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-03-01 23:59 ` John Moon
2023-03-10 8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-10 18:20 ` Trilok Soni
2023-03-20 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
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