Since commit ddaf5c8f30
(patman: RunPipe() should not pipe stdout/stderr unless asked),
Patman spits lots of "Invalid MAINTAINERS address: '-'"
error messages for patches with global changes.
It takes too long for Patman to process them.
Anyway, "M: -" does not carry any important information.
Rather, it is just like a place holder in case of assigning
a new board maintainer. Let's comment out.
This commit can be reproduced by the following command:
find . -name MAINTAINERS | xargs sed -i -e '/^M:[[:blank:]]*-$/s/^/#/'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
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 31f1b654b2,
"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/^/#/
}
'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We have switched to Kconfig and the boards.cfg file is going to
be removed. We have to retrieve the board status and maintainers
information from it.
The MAINTAINERS format as in Linux Kernel would be nice
because we can crib the scripts/get_maintainer.pl script.
After some discussion, we chose to put a MAINTAINERS file under each
board directory, not the top-level one because we want to collect
relevant information for a board into a single place.
TODO:
Modify get_maintainer.pl to scan multiple MAINTAINERS files.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Suggested-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
