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On Tue, 6 May 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:

> 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
> +

It'd be nice to have also sysfs changes covered as well if this is not 
just about API, but also ABI; I am not sure whether this could be covered 
by MAINTAINERS pattern, but at least mentioning this list in 
Documentation/ABI/README seems appropriate.

(I am also wondering who is actually subsribed to the linux-api@ 
mailinglist, given the low general awareness of its existance :) ).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs