[PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:54:00PM -0800, John Moon wrote:
> Our goal is to add tooling for vendor driver developers because the
> upstream model of expert maintainer code review can be difficult to
> replicate in-house. Tools may help developers catch simple UAPI
> incompatibilities that could be easily overlooked by in-house review.

Why would this matter in any way for the kernel?  If you tool is useful
for in-kernel usage it should be added to the tree and documented as
such, but ouf of tree crap simply does not matter.