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Documentation/ABI: document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols
authorJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tue, 5 Nov 2013 05:57:34 +0000 (16:57 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 5 Nov 2013 05:57:34 +0000 (16:57 +1100)
commitc5e8cc194bd22f85473c154e71e4de5ef2365b90
tree3627990f63a6dfd429c7bf0fdef35b1457c1da96
parentf20ed64029793acdddec87edffdc7908b43a0e70
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>
Documentation/ABI/README