[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] buildman: make board selector argument a regex

[Simon Glass]

Applied to u-boot-x86 branch buildpatman, thank you.



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
> wrote:
> > From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> >
> > A common use-case is to build all boards for a particular SoC. This can
> > be achieved by:
> >
> > ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev tegra20
> >
> > However, when the SoC is a member of a family of SoCs, and each SoC has
> > a different name, it would be even more useful to build all boards for
> > every SoC in that family. This currently isn't possible since buildman's
> > board selection command-line arguments are compared to board definitions
> > using pure string equality.
> >
> > To enable this, compare using a regex match instead. This matches
> > MAKEALL's handling of command-line arguments. This enables:
> >
> > (all Tegra)
> > ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev tegra
> >
> > (all Tegra)
> > ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev '^tegra.*$'
> >
> > (all Tegra20, Tegra30 boards, but not Tegra114)
> > ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev 'tegra[23]'
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> Nice README, thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>