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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:55:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454619328.3263.4.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160204153415.GB6066@x>

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 07:34 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Might I suggest an alternate commit message?
> 
> """
> Commit ea8f8fc8631 ("MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI
> changes") added file triggers for various paths that likely indicated
> API/ABI changes.  However, catching all changes in Documentation/ABI/
> and include/uapi/ produces a large volume of mail to linux-api, rather
> than only API/ABI changes.  Drop those two entries, but leave
> include/linux/syscalls.h and kernel/sys_ni.c to catch syscall-related
> changes.
> """
[]
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> > @@ -223,9 +223,7 @@ F:  drivers/scsi/aacraid/
> > 
> >  ABI/API
> >  L:     linux-api@vger.kernel.org
> > -F:     Documentation/ABI/
> >  F:     include/linux/syscalls.h
> > -F:     include/uapi/
> >  F:     kernel/sys_ni.c

Maybe add a keyword entry like:

K:	(?i)syscall

to see all actual changes of syscalls too?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-04 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-04 14:05 [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-02-04 14:38 ` Shuah Khan
2016-02-04 15:34 ` Josh Triplett
2016-02-04 19:44   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-02-04 20:55   ` Joe Perches [this message]

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