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Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API

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On 02/04/2016 07:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Josh Tripplett's commit ea8f8fc8631d9f890580a94d57a18bfeb827fa2e
> was well intentioned (I even Acked it), but in practice it has mostly
> generated (a lot of) useless noise on linux-api as developers of
> drivers and implementers of other uninteresting changes run
> scripts/get-maintainers.pl and unthinkingly paste the results
> into their email clients. And that commit didn't really
> help catch the really important API changes (new system calls,
> new options to existing system calls, new pseudofile entries,
> and so on). So, trim the 'F:' triggers for the "ABI/API" entry
> in MAINTAINERS right back to the minimum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f678c37..56f7a4f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -223,9 +223,7 @@ 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
> 

Acked-by: Shuah khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>

thanks,
-- Shuah

-- 
Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Open Source Innovation Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
shuahkh@osg.samsung.com | (970) 217-8978

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[patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 15:10 +0100
  Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-02-04 15:40 +0100
  Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-02-04 16:40 +0100
    Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 20:50 +0100
    Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-02-04 22:00 +0100

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