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

[Simon Glass]

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>

BTW what is this patch against - it doesn't seem to apply to mainline for me.

> ---
> 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