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

[josh@joshtriplett.org]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:42:01PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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>

Resent to LKML.