[U-Boot] trouble with patman

[Simon Glass]

Hi Hannes,

On 11 February 2016 at 05:48, Hannes Schmelzer <hannes at schmelzer.or.at> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i created some commit which i want to post into the mailing list usind
> patman.py.
>
> I get following error, where i've no idea about the root cause ...
>
> ~/work/u-boot $ tools/patman/patman.py -n
> Cleaned 1 patches
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tools/patman/patman.py", line 158, in <module>
>     options.add_maintainers)
>   File "/home/schmelzerh/work/u-boot/tools/patman/series.py", line 222, in
> MakeCcFile
>     raise_on_error=raise_on_error)
>   File "/home/schmelzerh/work/u-boot/tools/patman/gitutil.py", line 321, in
> BuildEmailList
>     raw += LookupEmail(item, alias, raise_on_error=raise_on_error)
>   File "/home/schmelzerh/work/u-boot/tools/patman/gitutil.py", line 495, in
> LookupEmail
>     raise ValueError, msg
> ValueError: Alias 'gpio' not found

Do you have a gpio: tag in your patch subject? If so, patman will try
to email the patch to the 'gpio' alias. You can use -t to ignore
invalid aliases.

>
>
> any suggestions ?
>
> many thanks and best regards,
> Hannes

Regards,
Simon