[U-Boot] patman feature request

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>> It looks like today was the day that Joe and I both decided to give
>> patman a whirl.  On IRC we both hit the same annoyance of commits like:
>> "Cosmetic: Something" causing patman to look for a maintainer for
>> cosmetic and failing fatally.  Could we please make maintainer alias not
>> found a warning and not a fatal error (so the human can go "oh, that's
>> not a real area, that's fine" ?  My ~/.patman is almost more fixups than
>> real aliases.
>
> I agree; I have also sent two minor fixes to patman and I've been
> putting fixups on my .patman to make it run and it does seem it would
> work better if it was an warn.

Yes I like the idea of a warning instead of an error. It annoys me too
sometimes, although I do use it as a check against adding a tag that
no one has heard of.

>
> Another idea is to have a wildcard that matches as a fallback.
>

I suppose wildcards matches might be useful - could be overkill though.

Regards,
Simon

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