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

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

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.

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
-- 
2.0.0.rc0