Dear Albert,
In message 1374611299-16836-1-git-send-email-albert.u.boot@aribaud.net you wrote:
This patch series aims at refactoring MAINTAINERS into an easily processable file.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
There are not actually five changes as such; the first four patches are step-by-step cleaning so that the last patch can be created essentially by running an AWK script on MAINTAINERS.
Hm, I wonder if we shouldadd (back) a column providing information about the SoC type? When searching for - for example - maintainers for all i.MX6 boards it's not really helpful to only have a huge list of "ARM" boards.
OK, you can argument that we can extract this information using "MAKEALL -l", but then we could also omit the architecture column in the MAINTAINERS file.
Alternatively, we could drop the MAINTAINERS file and just add the status and name/mail address columns to the boards.cfg file. I agree that this would become even more unreadabe, but then we'd have all information in a single place. [Merging MAINTAINERS into boards.cfg could be done automatically using your last file format as input.]
What do you think?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk