On 3/1/21 11:02 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Commit 7b4693e644cb ("MAINTAINERS: add uapi directories to API/ABI section")
> added include/uapi/ and arch/*/include/uapi/ so that patches modifying them
> CC linux-api. However that was already done in the past and resulted in too
> much noise and thus later removed, as explained in b14fd334ff3d ("MAINTAINERS:
> trim the file triggers for ABI/API")
>
> To prevent another round of addition and removal in the future, change the
> entries to X: (explicit exclusion) for documentation purposes, although they
> are not subdirectories of broader included directories, as there is apparently
> no defined way to add plain comments in subsystem sections.
>
> Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d92f85ca831d..591829cd1ba4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ ABI/API
> L: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> F: include/linux/syscalls.h
> F: kernel/sys_ni.c
> -F: include/uapi/
> -F: arch/*/include/uapi/
> +X: include/uapi/
> +X: arch/*/include/uapi/
>
> ABIT UGURU 1,2 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER
> M: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
Thanks, Vlastimil.
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Michael
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