[PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility

Trilok Soni quic_tsoni at quicinc.com
Wed Mar 1 15:35:53 PST 2023


On 3/1/2023 3:33 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:33 PM John Moon <quic_johmoo at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> With some additional help from Nick offline, we determined that the
>> issue isn't with clang, but with libdw (from elfutils). You need at
>> least libdw version 0.171 for the abidiff tool to work correctly with
>> clang (in this particular case). Ubuntu 18.04 ships with version 0.170.
>>
>> If there's any interest, it'd be fairly easy to add a check for this
>> condition under the check_deps() function in the script.
> 
> Good job John; mind sending a v3 with that addition, and the commit
> message updated?

I would prefer to wait to get more reviews on v2 from Greg/Masahiro and 
then combine above checks in the v3. If there are no comments by next 
Monday then we can send v3, sounds good?

---Trilok Soni



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