Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D66C7618A for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229700AbjCTG1Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:27:25 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54618 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229782AbjCTG1K (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:27:10 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BD2576B7; Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:27:05 -0700 (PDT) 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 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.