[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: 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. 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. Cheers, Michael > -- > 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
