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 <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > > 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.
