[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] Add 'patman' patch generation, checking and submission script

[Simon Glass]

Hi Albert,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Le 15/01/2012 02:20, Simon Glass a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hmmm patman found a tag in this commit and tried to send it to Fred
>> Bloggs. I have added the line below - sorry for the confusion.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Simon Glass<sjg at chromium.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> What is this?
>>> =============
>>>
>>> This tool is a Python script which:
>>> - Creates patch directly from your branch
>>> - Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags
>>> - Inserts a cover letter with change lists
>>> - Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
>>> - Optionally emails them out to selected people
>
>
> It seems to me that this is not specific to u-boot, and as such, has no
> reason to be managed along with U-Boot.
>
> Why should it not simply have its own project and resources?

It was created in response to Wolfgang's comments that the sometimes
low quality of patches on the U-Boot ML chews up a lot of time.

It is not technically specific to U-Boot (since it could also be used
with the Linux kernel), but that was my intent when creating it. If
this goes in then I plan to look at how to automate build testing also
so we can more easily see that patches are MAKEALL-clean.

The discussion at the time was here:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-October/105862.html

and the many messages which followed. My patch was in response to this.

>
> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.

Regards,
Simon