From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25E373858C53 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:27:08 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 25E373858C53 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=ymlj6tr7jc/Ds5qpTizc2igFIqLJSW+AJ2TX/23qHyA=; b=k1Unp9naWpT6C3jcgjEpwlJr9a NiEPfknU57CWh7L1IhjSPld91xn7i02IEhK1eDM+W3lrETC0YSWW38zKqliLeF64l7opZ++5lkcaQ l+4iyCtMIA2zX5Vp48GL2tL4M0UkLqeb47fn1ZIc9Tzi5Mlm84fbnFy9Qy40xycus1lCIuOepksJN gas9lJfg+wdtVbMwfzN/Ywtr4YwZhlk89aVe78eB7Awo5yJBwy1s3XLpcvOeZGFmAfpfnuYShOwEG g5nGkq652NYEj/gm6bbtV1G9P7WefZlIRZvEDli/vbTIxsK8g3FtkzfRiposFHRPV7VBmo9FG2Nk/ YqaXQk8w==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1pe8yo-008ED5-00; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:26:50 +0000 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:26:49 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Trilok Soni Cc: Christoph Hellwig , John Moon , Masahiro Yamada , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , Nicolas Schier , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Randy Dunlap , Arnd Bergmann , Bjorn Andersson , Todd Kjos , Matthias Maennich , Giuliano Procida , kernel-team@android.com, libabigail@sourceware.org, Jordan Crouse , Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala , Elliot Berman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility Message-ID: References: <20230301075402.4578-1-quic_johmoo@quicinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:20:14AM -0800, Trilok Soni wrote: > This tool will be helpful for the kernel maintainers and reviewers as well > if it can detect potential UAPI backward compatibilities. Even for the > developers while changing UAPI interfaces at kernel.org before submission. So document it as that.