From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752290Ab1CGLfd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 06:35:33 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49708 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753367Ab1CGLf1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 06:35:27 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add a guideline on notification of new userspace API/ABI elements To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:35:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20110307113523.24025.37925.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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 . + +9. Happy hacking. Descriptions of section entries: