[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude uapi directories in API/ABI section

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude uapi directories in API/ABI section

[Vlastimil Babka]

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) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 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 <hdegoede@redhat.com>
-- 
2.30.1

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude uapi directories in API/ABI section

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

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) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
>  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 <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> 

Thanks, Vlastimil.

Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

Cheers,

Michael

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