On 02/04/2016 07:04 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > [expanding the CC a little] > > Hi Andy, (and Shuah) > > On 4 February 2016 at 05:51, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [cc list heavily trimmed] >> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Change dvb frontend to check if tuner is free when >>> device opened in RW mode. Call to enable_source >>> handler either returns with an active pipeline to >>> tuner or error if tuner is busy. Tuner is released >>> when frontend is released calling the disable_source >>> handler. >> >> As an actual subscriber to linux-api, I prefer for the linux-api list >> to be lowish-volume and mostly limited to API-related things. Is this >> API related? Do people think that these series should be sent to >> linux-api? > > I think not, and I'd like to stem the flood of mail to the list. > There's two things that we could do: I simply followed the getmaintainers generate3d list. A bit surprised to see linux-api, but didn't want to leave it out. > > 1. Shuah, I know we talked about this in the past, and it made some > sense to me at the time for kselftest to use linux-api@, but maybe > it's time to create a dedicated list, and move the traffic there? It'd > help focus the traffic of linux-api more on its original purpose. Yes that is a good plan - I will request a new mailing list and send in a patch to Kselftest MAINTIANER's entry. > > 2. However, I think the bigger cause of the flood is the change made > to MAINTAINERS by Josh's commit > ea8f8fc8631d9f890580a94d57a18bfeb827fa2e: > > +ABI/API > +L: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +F: Documentation/ABI/ > +F: include/linux/syscalls.h > +F: include/uapi/ > +F: kernel/sys_ni.c > > The change was well-intentioned (I Acked it), but folk run > scripts/get-maintainers.pl without thinking too much about its output > and add all of the resulting lists and CCs to their patch submissions. > This means we get a lot of useless noise relating to drivers and > unrelated Documentation changes, and actually miss some of the really > important changes (e.g., extensions of system calls; and new /proc > entries tend to get lost in the noise). Furthermore, people doing > things such as adding new system calls often don't tun > scripts/get-maintainers.pl it seems. Certainly, I have to often enough > remind peple to CC linux-api when adding new system calls. > > I'll craft a patch to trim the MAINTAINERS entry. > Thanks for doing this, -- Shuah -- Shuah Khan Sr. Linux Kernel Developer Open Source Innovation Group Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley) shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (970) 217-8978 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
