Hi Josh,
On 4 February 2016 at 16:34, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> """
Thanks. Looks like Andrew picked your version of the commit message up.
Cheers,
Michael
>> 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
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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