[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS.boards: add initial version

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,

In message <1398027454-20399-4-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com> you wrote:
> MAINTAINERS.boards is generated from boards.cfg at
> commit b149c4c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>

I understand your intentions, but I have to admit that I seriously
dislike this approach.  It has been quite a long way to come up with
boards.cfg, which would attempt to colect all relevant information for
a board in a single database.  In my opinion, this is still the right
way we should go: maintain all related information in a single place.

What you do here means we start distributing the relevant information
again over a number of different files.  We all know that keeping
several such files in sync is not only a PITA - it simply does not
work.

Instead of adding such MAINTAINERs files, you should strive to extract
the relevant information from the existing database (i. e. the
boards.cfg file - or whatever we decide to have instead of it).

In any case, scattering such data all over the place is a bad thing to
do.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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