[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: comment out invalid maintainers

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Sep 17 05:54:22 CEST 2014


HI Masahiro,

On 15 September 2014 23:11, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> The "S:    Orphan" in MAINTAINERS means that the maintainer in the
> "M:" field is unreachable (i.e. the email address is not working).
> (Refer to the definition of "Orphan" adopted in U-Boot
> in the log of commit 31f1b654b2f395b69faa5d0d3c1eb0803923bd3b,
> "boards.cfg: move boards with invalid emails to Orphan")
>
> For patch files adding global changes, scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> adds bunch of such invalid email addresses, which results in
> tons of annoying bounce emails.
>
> This commit can be reproduced by the following command:
>
> find . -name MAINTAINERS | xargs sed -i -e '
> /^M:[[:blank:]]/ {
>       N
>       /S:[[:blank:]]Orphan/s/^/#/
> }
> '

Would it be better to change the get_maintainer script?

If not the patch looks OK, so:

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Regards,
Simon


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