[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Reviewing new API/ABI
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.cz
Wed May 7 11:48:03 UTC 2014
On Tue, 6 May 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:
> From 424c7365ed5ed64190a1d08fe30c8e86832368b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:20:25 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
>
> This makes it more likely that patch submitters will CC API/ABI changes
> to the linux-api list, and tools like get_maintainer.pl will do so
> automatically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7578deb..52a282b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -210,6 +210,13 @@ S: Supported
> F: Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
> F: drivers/scsi/aacraid/
>
> +ABI/API
> +L: linux-api at vger.kernel.org
> +F: Documentation/ABI/
> +F: include/linux/syscalls.h
> +F: include/uapi/
> +F: kernel/sys_ni.c
> +
It'd be nice to have also sysfs changes covered as well if this is not
just about API, but also ABI; I am not sure whether this could be covered
by MAINTAINERS pattern, but at least mentioning this list in
Documentation/ABI/README seems appropriate.
(I am also wondering who is actually subsribed to the linux-api@
mailinglist, given the low general awareness of its existance :) ).
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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