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From: Ponomarenko Andrey <andrewponomarenko@××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] ABI changes analysis for the Linux kernel
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:40:00
Message-Id: 456101480423190@web19m.yandex.ru
1 Hello,
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3 This is a tracker of ABI changes in the new upstream releases of the Linux kernel (defconfig, x86_64): https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/linux/
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5 The tracker performs backward binary compatibility analysis of all public exported symbols and data types (declared in the ".ksymtab" and ".ksymtab_gpl" sections of the vmlinux binary + system calls) and lists all added/removed symbols.
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7 The source code of the tool is published on github: https://github.com/lvc/kernel-abi-tracker
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9 The tool can be used to compare ABIs of downstream kernels as well. See README of the project.
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11 Enjoy!