25 Sep, 2014

1 commit

  • The "S: Orphan" in MAINTAINERS means that the maintainer in the
    "M:" field is unreachable (i.e. the email address is not working).
    (Refer to the definition of "Orphan" adopted in U-Boot
    in the log of commit 31f1b654b2f395b69faa5d0d3c1eb0803923bd3b,
    "boards.cfg: move boards with invalid emails to Orphan")

    For patch files adding global changes, scripts/get_maintainer.pl
    adds bunch of such invalid email addresses, which results in
    tons of annoying bounce emails.

    This commit can be reproduced by the following command:

    find . -name MAINTAINERS | xargs sed -i -e '
    /^M:[[:blank:]]/ {
    N
    /S:[[:blank:]]Orphan/s/^/#/
    }
    '

    Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
    Acked-by: Simon Glass

    Masahiro Yamada
     

30 Jul, 2014

1 commit

  • We have switched to Kconfig and the boards.cfg file is going to
    be removed. We have to retrieve the board status and maintainers
    information from it.

    The MAINTAINERS format as in Linux Kernel would be nice
    because we can crib the scripts/get_maintainer.pl script.

    After some discussion, we chose to put a MAINTAINERS file under each
    board directory, not the top-level one because we want to collect
    relevant information for a board into a single place.

    TODO:
    Modify get_maintainer.pl to scan multiple MAINTAINERS files.

    Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
    Suggested-by: Tom Rini
    Acked-by: Simon Glass

    Masahiro Yamada