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

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: trim the file triggers for ABI/API
Date	2016-02-04 22:00 +0100
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On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 07:34 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Might I suggest an alternate commit message?
> 
> """
> Commit ea8f8fc8631 ("MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI
> changes") added file triggers for various paths that likely indicated
> API/ABI changes.  However, catching all changes in Documentation/ABI/
> and include/uapi/ produces a large volume of mail to linux-api, rather
> than only API/ABI changes.  Drop those two entries, but leave
> include/linux/syscalls.h and kernel/sys_ni.c to catch syscall-related
> changes.
> """
[]
> > diff --git 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

Maybe add a keyword entry like:

K:	(?i)syscall

to see all actual changes of syscalls too?

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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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