[U-Boot] patman feature request

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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.

Maybe the .patman might support a regexp for the tag; this way we can
have things like:

mx[s5]: ...

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