From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:30:32 +0900 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS.boards: add initial version In-Reply-To: References: <20140421211648.4ABD33803C8@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20140422163032.3AE3.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Albert, > Can'we have the maintainer(s) be part of the board config file > from the start, like a required (but possible non-editable) > configuration item, something like "CONFIG_MAINTAINER_EMAIL"? > > This would, at least, keep all information for a single board > in a single place. I did this (CONFIG_BOARD_MAINTAINER) in my RFC http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/330915/ (but user-editable) I think everyone was opposed to my idea and we chose to add MAINTAINERS file. Best Regards Masahiro Yamada