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

[Doug Anderson]

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: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>