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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes
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On 25/01/17 18:33, Joao Martins wrote:
> This file defines an ABI shared between guest and hypervisor(s)
> (KVM, Xen) and as such there should be an correspondent entry in
> MAINTAINERS file. Notice that there's already a text notice at the
> top of the header file, hence this commit simply enforces it more
> explicitly and have both peers noticed when such changes happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> ---
> This was suggested by folks at xen-devel as we missed some of the
> ABI additions (e.g. flags field in pvti, TSC stable bit) - so this
> patch is to help preventing that from happening. Alternatively I
> could instead add a "PVCLOCK ABI" section in this file with the
> two mailing lists.

I don't mind either way. In case of an own section: make it more generic
like "PARAVIRT ABIS" as there might be more than PVCLOCK (if not now
maybe in future).

For both variants:

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 26edd83..c4315d1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7041,6 +7041,7 @@ F: Documentation/virtual/kvm/
> F: arch/*/kvm/
> F: arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> F: arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> +F: arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock-abi.h
> F: arch/*/include/asm/kvm*
> F: include/linux/kvm*
> F: include/uapi/linux/kvm*
> @@ -13483,6 +13484,7 @@ M: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> L: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git
> S: Supported
> +F: arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock-abi.h
> F: arch/x86/xen/
> F: drivers/*/xen-*front.c
> F: drivers/xen/
>

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