From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB0A5A9A for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:56:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by widex7 with SMTP id ex7so380065wid.0 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:56:33 -0800 (PST) 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=pzx/renKKyRCrvPQ/f+NaqzolhuVDhQwg0XXXldJqvg=; b=e4wukuG7MyBuzBL8S94DmvkjnsDAou9DjQr20jYjm4LozOKeRksl9bKY3Qhu/gt3Rv ZEy18U4N1NxjXMtJYrtGrPfBLPRHfKaGKMZw4IXjdkhUZIXMNtScWGZgUstas960Dheo efm92iMjj7KbUaokuy0dyBWbbFvm3cS/HU9Gz5Q4BlIHU12aO/1jOB6bhUvgTYtgnjX9 4AQZDc0sihBI3uTK0GfsHUD4ZEPllIdGWJO3fD3lQVwlhlOpyQZ02rC6EQp+xhSfuw/S H6Dtoew77CETk67C3KE/LXp7gVbeWzWjR3mJEErc0CWBZhdg1+26bd+J6F4M1klzpRvn AQnA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkVWLqIA9sWH5Y1vQgP0s2oXN/EIGRR0zFeKUS+XFathbVWVHKSQ+i8IfWn7I1ybN/MoJs5 X-Received: by 10.194.120.132 with SMTP id lc4mr28696882wjb.92.1425045393091; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bo1sm6092396wjb.15.2015.02.27.05.56.31 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:56:32 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Neil Horman Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:55:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3572172.j6x246F0TI@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.4 (Linux/3.18.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150227134837.GB1611@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <1422652596-12777-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1422901106-20734-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <20150227134837.GB1611@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:56:33 -0000 Hi Neil, 2015-02-27 08:48, Neil Horman: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:18:26PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > There was a request for an abi validation utiltyfor 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 develoeprs the > > opportunity to identify which symbols then need versioning and validation for a > > given update via manaul 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. > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman > > Whats the disposition of this, I don't see it in the repository yet. I plan to review it carefully during next week. We can integrate this tool until end of March, that's why it was not the highest priority.