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 <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > --- > > 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 <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> Applied, thanks
