[U-Boot] [PATCH] patman: Only apply patches when we know the original HEAD

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> OK. It seems better to check.
>
> I added some patches which include whitespace errors
> and ran Patman.
>
> It looks like nothing changes with/without -a option.
>
>
> $ tools/patman/patman -a -c 3
> 1 warnings for 0002-arm-commit-2.patch:
>         Line 21/0 has space before tab
>
> 1 warnings for 0003-arm-commit-3.patch:
>         Found possible blank line(s) at end of file 'None'
>
> Cleaned 3 patches
> 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks for 0001-arm-commit-1.patch:
> error: common/cmd_mmc.c,22: trailing whitespace
>
> 1 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks for 0002-arm-commit-2.patch:
> error: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: code indent should use tabs where possible
> warning: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: please, no space before tabs
> warning: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: please, no spaces at the start of a line
>
> checkpatch.pl found 2 error(s), 2 warning(s), 0 checks(s)
>
>
> $ tools/patman/patman  -c 3
> 1 warnings for 0002-arm-commit-2.patch:
>         Line 21/0 has space before tab
>
> 1 warnings for 0003-arm-commit-3.patch:
>         Found possible blank line(s) at end of file 'None'
>
> Cleaned 3 patches
> 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks for 0001-arm-commit-1.patch:
> error: common/cmd_mmc.c,22: trailing whitespace
>
> 1 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks for 0002-arm-commit-2.patch:
> error: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: code indent should use tabs where possible
> warning: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: please, no space before tabs
> warning: common/cmd_mmc.c,26: please, no spaces at the start of a line
>
> checkpatch.pl found 2 error(s), 2 warning(s), 0 checks(s)

It sure looks like checkpatch now catches things so it never gets to
"git am".  Making "-a" off by default seems reasonable to me.

-Doug