Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes | From | Juergen Gross <> | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:54:01 +0100 |
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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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