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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Reviewing new API/ABI
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:27:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5369D243.6030305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140506190024.GA1004@kroah.com>

On 05/06/2014 09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> We do have linux-api, which should be cc:ed for new api additions.  But
> it usually isn't :(

As I've just said in reply to Josh Triplett's MAINTAINERS patch, I think 
they key here is persistence. Every time you see something that changes 
the API/ABI, ask the submitter to CC linux-api (and CC linux-api on 
that request). I try to do this now and then, but I catch just a few
drops from the LKML firehose. If enough people do this often enough,
I think there's a chance to bring this discipline to the culture.

CCing linux-api@ really would help a lot of people:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html

Cheers,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06 17:45 Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 17:58 ` josh
2014-05-06 19:12   ` Shuah Khan
2014-05-06 19:16     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 19:37       ` Shuah Khan
2014-05-06 19:21   ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-06 19:43     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 19:48       ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-06 19:51         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 19:45     ` josh
2014-05-06 20:10     ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-06 20:13       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-07 10:12     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-05-07 12:36       ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-07 13:30         ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-05-07 13:50           ` Hans Verkuil
2014-05-12 14:15         ` Wolfram Sang
2014-05-07 17:48   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-05-06 19:00 ` Greg KH
2014-05-06 20:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-06 20:34     ` Josh Triplett
2014-05-06 20:42       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-06 21:00         ` josh
2014-05-07 11:48       ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-08  6:35         ` Li Zefan
2014-05-12  6:37           ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-07  6:27   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2014-05-06 19:57 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-08 18:15   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-09 11:33 ` Jeff Layton
2014-05-09 11:50   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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