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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add a guideline on notification of new userspace API/ABI elements
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:36:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299508603.20104.30.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307113523.24025.37925.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 11:35 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Add a guideline indicating who to notify about new userspace API/ABI elements,
> such as new system calls or error codes.

Hey David.

Is there some list of files that are more likely to
trigger this?

Maybe add a section like:

USERSPACE ABI/API INTERFACES
L:	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
F:	include/asm-generic/errno*.h
F:	include/linux/capability.h
F:	include/linux/compat.h
F:	include/linux/syscalls.h
F:	include/*/unistd.h

Maybe add some arch wildcards?

F:	arch/*/include/asm/errno.h
F:	arch/*/include/asm/unistd.h

Maybe add fs?

F:	fs/compat*.c

There's probably a bunch of others.
Suggestions?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 11:35 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add a guideline on notification of new userspace API/ABI elements David Howells
2011-03-07 14:36 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-03-07 14:43   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-07 14:45   ` David Howells
2011-03-07 17:30 ` Randy Dunlap

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