[BUG] patman: refused to send patches because of warnings

[Sean Anderson]

On 12/17/21 10:59 PM, Tony Dinh wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I tried to send in patches to add support for a new board. patman
> seems to hit a problem with "Bad divisor in main" error and refuses to
> send the patches. The warnings are not really important, are they? In
> some instances, we need camel cases because that is what the
> convention in the specs for MPPs. And the #ifdef or #if is necessary
> because the "if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG...))" cannot be used to compile-out
> a function. And the warnings about MAINTAINERS seem unnecessary.
> 
> Is there an option to tell patman to ignore the warnings or checks?
> 
> Here is the patman log.
> 
> 
> ./tools/patman/patman -c8 send

you can use -i to ignore errors

--Sean

> 
> Cleaned 8 patches
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0001-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-DTS-files.patch:
> <patch>:29: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0002-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-defconfig-file.patch:
> <patch>:16: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0003-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-Kconfig-files.patch:
> arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig:28: warning: please write a paragraph
> that describes the config symbol fully
> <patch>:39: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0004-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-include-configs-f.patch:
> <patch>:17: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0005-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-kwbimage-file.patch:
> <patch>:16: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0006-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-implementation-he.patch:
> <patch>:19: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> 0 errors, 3 warnings, 3 checks for
> 0007-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-implementation.patch:
> <patch>:23: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> board/cloudengines/pogo_v4/pogo_v4.c:49: check: Avoid CamelCase:
> <MPP6_SYSRST_OUTn>
> board/cloudengines/pogo_v4/pogo_v4.c:63: check: Avoid CamelCase:
> <MPP20_SATA1_ACTn>
> board/cloudengines/pogo_v4/pogo_v4.c:64: check: Avoid CamelCase:
> <MPP21_SATA0_ACTn>
> board/cloudengines/pogo_v4/pogo_v4.c:137: warning: Use 'if
> (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG...))' instead of '#if or #ifdef' where possible
> board/cloudengines/pogo_v4/pogo_v4.c:170: warning: Use 'if
> (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG...))' instead of '#if or #ifdef' where possible
> 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks for
> 0008-arm-kirkwood-Pogoplug-V4-Add-board-maintainer.patch:
> <patch>:16: warning: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?
> checkpatch.pl found 0 error(s), 11 warning(s), 3 checks(s)
> Bad divisor in main::vcs_assign: 0
> Not sending emails due to errors/warnings
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
>