kABI compability checking

[William Cohen]

I have investigated the kernel ABI compatibility checking. There are 
some scripts at Red Hat that do this checking on the RPMs. However, 
these scripts are probably not appropriate for development. The scripts 
make a number of assumptions about environment (the build system) that 
are unlikely to exist on most developers machine. The scripts check for 
comptibility across all the various target architectures.

The core of the checking is to compare the Module.symvers file from 
different builds. I have attached a simple-minded script to point out 
these problems given two different kernel build directories.  It will 
need refinement.

-Will
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