[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce get_maintainer.pl

[Simon Glass]

Hi Daniel,

On 31 July 2014 18:24, Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This series imports get_maintainer.pl from kernel and reintroduce
> the MAINTAINERS file in the according format. Currently one have to
> manually grep all infos about board maintainers or custodians from
> various sources like git log, wiki or boards.cfg. get_maintainer.pl
> makes this task much easier. Also patman is already able to use it
> for cc-cmd.
>
> The MAINTAINERS file contains all custodians and is hand-written based
> on infos from wiki [1] and u-boot git forks [2]. Thus the source files
> infos (F:) are not complete yet. Furthermore status (S:) and
> maintainership (M:) for some custodian trees are probably wrong.
> Any help in completing and fixing that is appreciated.
>
> The get_maintainers.pl script is modified to scan multiple
> MAINTAINERS files in the board directory. This is required
> with the switch to Kconfig which adds a MAINTAINERS file per board.
>
> Examples:
>
>  $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandbox/
>    Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> (maintainer:SANDBOX BOARD)
>    u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>
>  $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f arch/sandbox/
>    Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> (maintainer:SANDBOX)
>    u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>
>  $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandburst/metrobox/
>    Travis Sawyer <travis.sawyer at sandburst.com> (orphan (since 2014-03):METROBOX BOARD)
>    u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>
> This series is also available at git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mips.git/maintainers_v3.

Patman now picks this up which is great. But it does sometimes produce
a long list of maintainers. I wonder if we could have an option to
turn it off (perhaps -m)?

Regards,
Simon