On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Josh Tripplett's commit ea8f8fc8631d9f890580a94d57a18bfeb827fa2e
s/Tripplett/Triplett/
> 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.
This change makes sense, but I don't think this commit message explains
the specific changes to the file triggers. (Also, there's a convention
for referencing past commits.) 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.
"""
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -F: Documentation/ABI/
> F: include/linux/syscalls.h
> -F: include/uapi/
> F: kernel/sys_ni.c
>
> ABIT UGURU 1,2 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER
> --
> 2.5.0
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