[U-Boot] [PATCH] Make patman usable outside of u-boot tree

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Jan 9 23:22:33 CET 2013


Hi Vadim,

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at google.com> wrote:
>> Hi Vadim,
>>
>> Looks good! Please can you add a single character option?
>>
>
> Simon, I could not think of a good single letter option to pick, so I
> did not, but if you have a suggestion I implement it.

I can't think of a good one.

-C or -P ?

>
>> Can you also please add an option to skip the 'apply' step? This takes
>> quite a bit of time, and it would be nice to have a 'fast' option.
>>
>
> does it have to be in this CL?
>

No not at all.

> cheers,
> /vb

Regards,
Simon

>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Vadim,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch!  Looks good in general, though please add the
>>> "patman" prefix to the first line of your commit message.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:13 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 suippress patch
>>>
>>> s/suippress/suppress
>>>
>>>> +parser.add_option('--no-check', action='store_true', dest='no_check',
>>>> +                  default=False,
>>>> +                  help="Don't check for patch compliance")
>>>
>>> IMHO It would be slightly better to use action='store_false',
>>> dest='check', and default=True (just to avoid so many
>>> double-negatives).
>>>
>>>
>>> -Doug


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