[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] patman: Allow use outside of u-boot tree

[Simon Glass]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Vadim,
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> To make it usable in git trees not providing a patch checker
>>> implementation, add a command line option, allowing to suppress patch
>>> check. While we are at it, sort debug options alphabetically.
>>>
>>> Also, do not raise an exception if checkpatch.pl is not found - just
>>> print an error message suggesting to use the new option, and return
>>> nonzero status.
>>>
>>>    . unit test passes:
>>>     $ ./patman  -t
>>>     <unittest.result.TestResult run=7 errors=0 failures=0>
>>>    . successfully used patman in the autotest tree to generate a patch
>>>      email (with --no-check option)
>>>    . successfully used patman in the u-boot tree to generate a patch
>>>      email
>>>    . `patman --help' now shows command line options ordered
>>>      alphabetically
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org>
>>
>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot-x86, thanks.

>>
>> BTW what is this patch against - it doesn't seem to apply to mainline for me.
>>
>
> Right, it depends on the previous patches which still have not been
> applied to the upstream ToT.
>
> cheers,
> /vb
>
>>> ---
>>> Changes in v4:
>>>   . now properly corrected typo in the error message
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>>   . corrected typo in the error message
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>>   . addressed comments WRT use of double negative
>>>   . added code to gracefully handle absence of checkpatch.cl
>>>
>>>  tools/patman/checkpatch.py |   10 +++++-----
>>>  tools/patman/patman.py     |   14 ++++++++++----
>>>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>> [snip]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon