[PATCH] patman: Add "postfix" support to patch subjects

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Oct 24 21:54:12 CEST 2021


On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 17:07, Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at seco.com> wrote:
>
> In some communities, it may be necessary to append something after PATCH
> in the subject line. For example, the Linux networking subsystem
> expects [1] patch subject prefixes like [RFC PATCH net-next 0/99]. This
> adds support for such "postfix"s to patman. Although entirely cosmetic,
> it is still nice to have.
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/netdev-FAQ.html#how-do-i-indicate-which-tree-net-vs-net-next-my-patch-should-be-in
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at seco.com>
> ---
>
>  tools/patman/README          | 5 +++++
>  tools/patman/func_test.py    | 6 ++++--
>  tools/patman/patchstream.py  | 2 ++
>  tools/patman/series.py       | 9 +++++++--
>  tools/patman/test/test01.txt | 1 +
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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