[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 04/17] kconfig: add defconfig files for all boards

Tom Rini
2014-03-21T13:41:10Z

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:48:04AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>
> > > In message <CACUy__Uc8-xDMRiJm7SM1UfF_hVAdHKN9_MZC5FV0D=zDrAPeA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > maybe we should import get_maintainers.pl from kernel and readd
> > > > MAINTAINERS in the according format. So we could easily maintain infos
> > > > about board maintainers, custodians, custodian trees and maintaining
> > > > status per arch, CPU, SOC, drivers and boards in one place. Currently
> > > > that is not possible because one has to look into different sources
> > > > (boards.cfg, README's, U-Boot Wiki, git history, source file) to get
> > > > those infos.
> > >
> > > We have just created such a single point of information (boards.cfg),
> > > and now we're ripping it apart again :-(
> >
> > What Daniel said is right, we don't have a single point today, we have
> > boards.cfg, wiki and other stuff. Being able to leverage
> > get_maintainers.pl would be nice, even if it's a bit of a pain that we
> > just got things into boards.cfg. On the other hand, it's good that
> > we've just spent some time sorting and checking the information and it's
> > a regex'able problem to go from boards.cfg to MAINTAINERS.
>
> We can move forward this work first apart from Kconfig, can't we?
> It is a cosmetic change so it can be merged even if MW is closed.
>
> BTW, is this task expected to me?
> Or can anyone do it? (This would be very appreciated.)

I did some quick playing with sed and I can see a way to the end so I'll
take care of that.

--
Tom
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