Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:41:07 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Masahiro,
In message 20140428185854.B2B8.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com you wrote:
Before I send Kconfig series v2, please let me cofirm our approach of maintainers info.
Thanks for all your patience when dealing with all these apparently simple things that nevertheless take so much time and nerves to decide.
Instead, MAINTAINERS file as in Linux Kernel was proposed. (And the patch series by Daniel is already on Patchwork.) http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/340546/ But Wolfgang (and Albert) disagreed with it.
In Kconfig v1 series, I put maintainers info and board status in board/*/*/Kconfig as non-user-editable settings: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/342089/
I find myself in the difficult situation that I'm not really happy with either of these approaches, but then I don't have any better solution to suggest. I think I find the board/*/*/Kconfig a bit better.
But I am not sure if this is a good idea. (At least, it is dirty.)
Could you please explain why you think so?
CONFIG_BOARD_MAINTAINER is not referenced from anywhere. It is written just for a record. It's nothing more than a comment.
In my option, a plain text like boards.cfg or MAINTAINERS might be more suitable for that kind of information.
Even if somebody adds a new board and makes a typo error, for example, "config BOARD_MAINTANER", no error is reported. This is a mistake hard to find.
Another reason why I think a platin text is more suitable is that some maintainers' name include quoatations and they must be escaped.
Please notice this entry in board/dave/PPChameleonEVB/Kconfig:
config BOARD_MAINTAINER string default "Andrea "llandre" Marson andrea.marson@dave-tech.it"
Does this look strange? But the back-slashes before quotations are necessary to aviod Kconfig error.
In v2, I will drop maintainers info and board status from Kconfig and leave them to Daniel's patch.
Hm... :-(
I hope others will provide more feedback - I'd be seriously unhappy if this decision was based only on gut feelings like mine...
Yes. We must make a decision. But this decision is difficult.
Best Regards Masahiro Yamada