Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: coding style fixes

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 02:06:42PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 15-01-15 13:39:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Most of our code has
> > struct foo {
> > }
> > 
> > Fix two instances where balloon is inconsistent.
> 
> I hate to complain but is it really necessary to post such patches to
> linux-api?

Well it's human to err, so it seems wise to copy parties
interested in the ABI/API whenever we are changing files under include/uapi.
Whitespace changes should mostly be safe, but it's not unknown
e.g. to include unrelated changes in the same commit by mistake.

> I thought the list was primarily for API related discussions.

Basically this line in MAINTAINERS

ABI/API
L:      linux-api@vger.kernel.org
F:      Documentation/ABI/
F:      include/linux/syscalls.h
F:      include/uapi/
F:      kernel/sys_ni.c

normally means "send all patches affecting files under include/uapi/ to
this list", does it not?

Wasn't this the intent?

> This is not the only mail sent here which doesn't fall into that
> category IMO. It is far from low volume list for quite some time.
> 
> Please let's get back low volume and API only discussion!

Maybe send patch dropping include/uapi/ from there,
should help drive the volumes down?

> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 3 +--
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 3 +--
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > index be40f70..4b0488f 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@
> >  /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
> >  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> >  
> > -struct virtio_balloon_config
> > -{
> > +struct virtio_balloon_config {
> >  	/* Number of pages host wants Guest to give up. */
> >  	__le32 num_pages;
> >  	/* Number of pages we've actually got in balloon. */
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > index 3176ea4..0413157 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > @@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ static int oom_pages = OOM_VBALLOON_DEFAULT_PAGES;
> >  module_param(oom_pages, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(oom_pages, "pages to free on OOM");
> >  
> > -struct virtio_balloon
> > -{
> > +struct virtio_balloon {
> >  	struct virtio_device *vdev;
> >  	struct virtqueue *inflate_vq, *deflate_vq, *stats_vq;
> >  
> > -- 
> > MST
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> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs