[U-Boot] [RFC] Removal of doc/README.scrapyard

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 24 October 2014 13:31, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Marek,
>
> In message <201410241709.09895.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
>>
>> I've recently been removing support for some boards and this README.scrapyard
>> file came up again. The file is supposed to be used to keep track of removed
>> boards.
>
> Or, to put it differently, to document what was once suported and now
> is no longer.
>
>> I wonder if we shouldn't get rid of this README.scrapyard. Personally,
>> I don't find much value in it ; if I am looking for some ancient board,
>> I just do git log -p and search for whatever I need.
>
> Well, of course you can search - but the you need to know what to
> dearch for.  If you have no idea what to look for, then a text file
> listing all the options that onces existed might be helpful to focus
> your search - say, on specific board names and such.
>
> That was the idea behind README.scrapyard - give you information what
> you could use as search anchors for closer investigations.

My 2p, I quite like the graveyard. I wonder if a maintainer could deal
with updating the git hashes every now and then? I suppose if we kept
a strict format then a script could be used to produce the patch.

Regards,
Simon