From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com (mail-wi0-f180.google.com [209.85.212.180]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D989AA5 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:18:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by wibg7 with SMTP id g7so53393185wib.1 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:18:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=VvVoUkas9z2LMY5tHQbc/OnqXc0YydLsaR+4nkUdG64=; b=ATOOdLHzWdOq/CyiMgjPnGYLBUPwfz/sIXW3PR4LytSe1EvcFiu0HrIX9oDzqsFhTG MmqzkuqywBUPFWYcOVrxmO4GS9V7bWS66TzazKGEP8Kp/CKFqRcVjuCnApvk89CABGKa /qtrARgmYLf6nsmnnndPda0Mqv2da1uxdSK13n59gOPHWgoP43NtL5R8ozD/BthIAZjJ r68VEZ9+1Vff/dH2elIMbDFtKeUDf3KkAI0DmMxni2K7/Fen+SoB8ZmlXvsW1P2fNVKY nbwfUgH90aTMOf1oIcUQSMWFXMGZad/TI8hFFCATJpd/7X+0Y6JUGn9rQepRaH2B0Dn9 PM7Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnQBWGRKaZtMqLcUByQ34HB6E/J9eqMOrRk2LZ0aBFUXrgOL7jklHTnkgzwNggW04UM9Psu X-Received: by 10.180.75.73 with SMTP id a9mr1095978wiw.45.1426627100991; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b4sm295101wic.2.2015.03.17.14.18.19 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Neil Horman Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:17:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1846221.pQ0YdT9c48@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.4 (Linux/3.18.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1426615721-32119-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> References: <1422652596-12777-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1426615721-32119-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] ABI: Add abi checking utility X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:18:21 -0000 2015-03-17 14:08, Neil Horman: > There was a request for an abi validation utilty for the ongoing ABI stability > work. As it turns out there is a abi compliance checker in development that > seems to be under active development and provides fairly detailed ABI compliance > reports. Its not yet intellegent enough to understand symbol versioning, but it > does provide the ability to identify symbols which have changed between > releases, along with details of the change, and offers developers the > opportunity to identify which symbols then need versioning and validation for a > given update via manual testing. > > This script automates the use of the compliance checker between two arbitrarily > specified tags within the dpdk tree. To execute enter the $RTE_SDK directory > and run: > > ./scripts/validate_abi.sh $GIT_TAG1 $GIT_TAG2 $CONFIG > > where $GIT_TAG1 and 2 are git tags and $CONFIG is a config specification > suitable for passing as the T= variable in the make config command. > > Note the upstream source for the abi compliance checker is here: > http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker > > It generates a report for each DSO built from the requested tags that developers > can review to find ABI compliance issues. > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman > --- > > Change Notes: > > v2) Fixed some typos as requested by Thomas > > v3) Fixed some additional typos Thomas requested > Improved script to work from detached state > Added some documentation to the changelog > Added some comments to the scripts > > v4) Remove duplicate exports. > Move restoration of starting branch/comit to cleanup_and_exit > > v5) Fixed exit cleanup > Added MAINTAINERS entry Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Applied, thanks