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Documentation/ABI: document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols
authorJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:11:14 +0000 (15:11 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:09:32 +0000 (12:09 +0900)
commitfec6991719a7194171565dde31db5376fc84584e
treea4b6e2fc819e1c65fb8172db9accd62854b09e61
parent4b4d1d2610382f4e90ee1b8bda30d3a4d66dee2d
Documentation/ABI: document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols

Discussion at Kernel Summit made it clear that the presence or absence of
specific Kconfig symbols are not considered ABI, and that no userspace (or
bootloader, etc) should rely on them.

In addition, kernel-internal symbols are well established as non-ABI, per
Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.

Document both of these in Documentation/ABI/README, in a new section for
notable bits of non-ABI.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/README