On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:22:12PM +0200, 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.march...@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" ]
> --
> 2.23.0
>
>
this looks pretty reasonable to me, sure.
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>
