[U-Boot] [PATCH] boards.cfg: keep it sorted filling the board field

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 05:34:28PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The boards.cfg file has allowed to use "-" for the board (= 6th) field
> if the board name is the same as the 7th field.
> 
> But I notice one problem.
> Because tools/reformat.py sorts the lines in the simple alphabetical
> order (= the order of character code), some entries for the same board
> are not lined up together.
> 
> For example, "bf527-ezkit" and "bf527-ezkit-v2" share the same board.
> But they are located separately because "bf527-ezkit" fills the board
> field with "-" whereas "bf527-ezkit-v2" specifies it explicitely.
> 
> The similar things can be seen:
>  - between "trizepsive" and "polaris"
>  - between "RRvision" and "RRvision_LCD"
>  - between "korat" and "korat_perm"
>  - between "lwmon5" and "lcd4_lwmon5"
> 
> This commit was generated by the following command:
> 
> awk '$6 == "-" { $6 = $7 } { print }' boards.cfg \
>   | tools/reformat.py -i -d '-' -s 8  > boards0.cfg; \
>   mv boards0.cfg boards.cfg
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>

Tricky!  So I'm fine with correcting this problem but we also need to
update the top part of baords.cfg where it says how to re-sort things so
that we don't lose this in the future.

-- 
Tom
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