Re: [RFC 00/19] Kernel API Specification Framework
From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-17 12:08:53
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From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-17 12:08:53
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:48:39 -0400 Sasha Levin [off-list ref] wrote:
This patch series introduces a framework for formally specifying kernel APIs, addressing the long-standing challenge of maintaining stable interfaces between the kernel and user-space programs. As outlined in previous discussions about kernel ABI stability, the lack of machine-readable API specifications has led to inadvertent breakages and inconsistent validation across system calls and IOCTLs.
Ugg, looks horrid. Going to be worse than things like doxygen for getting out of step with the actual code and grep searches are going to hit the comment blocks. David