Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: give some hints for ABI errors

["Kinsella, Ray" <mdr@ashroe.eu>]

+ Aaron

On 08/07/2020 11:22, David Marchand wrote:
> abidiff can provide some more information about the ABI difference it
> detected.
> In all cases, a discussion on the mailing must happen but we can give
> some hints to know if this is a problem with the script calling abidiff,
> a potential ABI breakage or an unambiguous ABI breakage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
>  devtools/check-abi.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/devtools/check-abi.sh b/devtools/check-abi.sh
> index e17fedbd9f..521e2cce7c 100755
> --- a/devtools/check-abi.sh
> +++ b/devtools/check-abi.sh
> @@ -50,10 +50,22 @@ for dump in $(find $refdir -name "*.dump"); do
>  		error=1
>  		continue
>  	fi
> -	if ! abidiff $ABIDIFF_OPTIONS $dump $dump2; then
> +	abidiff $ABIDIFF_OPTIONS $dump $dump2 || {
> +		abiret=$?
>  		echo "Error: ABI issue reported for 'abidiff $ABIDIFF_OPTIONS $dump $dump2'"
>  		error=1
> -	fi
> +		echo
> +		if [ $(($abiret & 3)) != 0 ]; then
> +			echo "ABIDIFF_ERROR|ABIDIFF_USAGE_ERROR, please report this to dev@dpdk.org."
> +		fi
> +		if [ $(($abiret & 4)) != 0 ]; then
> +			echo "ABIDIFF_ABI_CHANGE, this change requires a review (abidiff flagged this as a potential issue)."
> +		fi
> +		if [ $(($abiret & 8)) != 0 ]; then
> +			echo "ABIDIFF_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE_CHANGE, this change breaks the ABI."
> +		fi
> +		echo
> +	}
>  done
>  
>  [ -z "$error" ] || [ -n "$warnonly" ]
> 

This look good to me, my only thought was can we do anything to help the ABI checks play nice with Travis.
At the moment it takes time to find the failure reason in the Travis log.

Ray K