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([2001:a61:3a2d:1d01:99ab:4f20:ed7f:402b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jj16sm21507346ejc.19.2021.03.03.13.52.39 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:52:39 -0800 (PST) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude uapi directories in API/ABI section To: Vlastimil Babka , Andrew Morton References: <20210301100255.25229-1-vbabka@suse.cz> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <55ec3d9c-5c11-2c4c-2fb4-3cc985b7b0b6@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 22:52:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210301100255.25229-1-vbabka@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 3/1/21 11:02 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Commit 7b4693e644cb ("MAINTAINERS: add uapi directories to API/ABI section") > added include/uapi/ and arch/*/include/uapi/ so that patches modifying them > CC linux-api. However that was already done in the past and resulted in too > much noise and thus later removed, as explained in b14fd334ff3d ("MAINTAINERS: > trim the file triggers for ABI/API") > > To prevent another round of addition and removal in the future, change the > entries to X: (explicit exclusion) for documentation purposes, although they > are not subdirectories of broader included directories, as there is apparently > no defined way to add plain comments in subsystem sections. > > Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka > --- > MAINTAINERS | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index d92f85ca831d..591829cd1ba4 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ ABI/API > L: linux-api@vger.kernel.org > F: include/linux/syscalls.h > F: kernel/sys_ni.c > -F: include/uapi/ > -F: arch/*/include/uapi/ > +X: include/uapi/ > +X: arch/*/include/uapi/ > > ABIT UGURU 1,2 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER > M: Hans de Goede > Thanks, Vlastimil. Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/