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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add a guideline on notification of new userspace API/ABI elements
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:35:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110307113523.24025.37925.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)

Add a guideline indicating who to notify about new userspace API/ABI elements,
such as new system calls or error codes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 MAINTAINERS |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 560ecce..694bec2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense.
 	please Cc: security@kernel.org, especially if the maintainer
 	does not respond.
 
-8.	Happy hacking.
+8.	When adding new userspace API/ABI elements, notably system calls and
+	error codes, please cc <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+9.	Happy hacking.
 
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 11:35 David Howells [this message]
2011-03-07 14:36 ` Joe Perches
2011-03-07 14:43   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-07 14:45 ` David Howells
2011-03-07 17:30 ` Randy Dunlap

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