[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] buildman: make board selector argument a regex

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM, 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 -n 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 -n tegra

Do you want the -n here?

>
> (all Tegra)
> ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev -n '^tegra.*$'
>
> (all Tegra114, Tegra30 boards, but not Tegra20)
> ./tools/buildman/buildman -b mainline_dev -n 'tegra[13]'
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  tools/buildman/board.py | 12 +++++++++++-

Great addition, will be useful. Would you mind also updating the README please?

Regards,
Simon