From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753403AbdAZUGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:06:04 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:31374 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbdAZUGC (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:06:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes To: Andy Lutomirski References: <1485365586-21653-1-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> <1485365586-21653-4-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , kvm list , Boris Ostrovsky , Juergen Gross , Paolo Bonzini , Radim Krcmar From: Joao Martins Message-ID: <588A574B.1090803@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 20:08:43 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/26/2017 05:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Joao Martins wrote: >> This file defines an ABI shared between guest and hypervisor(s) >> (KVM, Xen) and as such there should be an correspondent entry in >> MAINTAINERS file. Notice that there's already a text notice at the >> top of the header file, hence this commit simply enforces it more >> explicitly and have both peers noticed when such changes happen. >> >> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins >> --- >> This was suggested by folks at xen-devel as we missed some of the >> ABI additions (e.g. flags field in pvti, TSC stable bit) - so this >> patch is to help preventing that from happening. Alternatively I >> could instead add a "PVCLOCK ABI" section in this file with the >> two mailing lists. > > If you do the latter, please add me as an R:. OK, Thanks. Since the ABI is used on both hypervisors I'll leave/wait for maintainers to voice their preference. Joao