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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Feb 04 2016 - 15:55:37 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -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?