Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Reviewing new API/ABI

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:34:26 -0700
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:07:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2014 12:00:24 -0700
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > We do have linux-api, which should be cc:ed for new api additions.  But
> > > it usually isn't :(
> > 
> > That's the first I've heard of that list. Maybe that's the reason it
> > hasn't been cc'd much. Hard to Cc lists that you don't know about.
> > 
> > /me goes to look in MAINTAINERS for linux-api mailing list. Nope, not
> > there.
> 
> Here's a patch:
> 
> ---8<---
> >From 424c7365ed5ed64190a1d08fe30c8e86832368b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:20:25 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
> 
> This makes it more likely that patch submitters will CC API/ABI changes
> to the linux-api list, and tools like get_maintainer.pl will do so
> automatically.
> 

Although patches need to go to LKML.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7578deb..52a282b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -210,6 +210,13 @@ S:	Supported
>  F:	Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
>  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
> +
>  ABIT UGURU 1,2 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER
>  M:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>  L:	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org