[U-Boot] [RFC] Kconfig: MAINTAINERS file or not?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue May 6 22:09:50 CEST 2014


Dear Tom,

In message <20140506183303.GY22182 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> Perhaps a compromise here is to throw lots of MAINTAINERS files around
> and whack get_maintainers.pl to loop over all 'MAINTAINERS' files rather
> than the single top level one?  That way we can get human understandable
> information out easily (who owns board/ti/fooevm/ ? Check
> board/ti/fooevm/MAINTAINERS.  New port?  Better include the file in the
> patch set) and a small patch to existing tools should handle this multi
> file format.

I think that's an excellent idea.  I'm all for it.  Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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