[PATCH v2 00/11] Remove patman from the U-Boot tree

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:32:11 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> patman is now maintained as a standalone 'patch-manager' package, so
> remove it from the tree. The command becomes a stub that tells people to
> run 'pip install patch-manager'.
> 
> buildman still imports the shared modules commit and patchstream (along
> with their dependencies), so this series leaves those in place. It drops
> the tool's code, tests, CI hooks and packaging, and removes the in-tree
> documentation, moving the b4 contributor guide alongside the patman note
> in the patch-sending docs. It also adds a .patman-defaults file so the external
> tool is set up for U-Boot, next to the existing .b4-config. Where the CI
> jobs relied on patman's requirements for the setuptools that pylibfdt
> needs, they now install scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/requirements.txt instead.
> 
> [...]

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

[01/11] doc: Move the b4 guide into sending_patches
        commit: 08183ba1af1953c1a4dcdea94d1f6d8f4b5254b3
[02/11] doc: Remove the patman documentation
        commit: f6c56009f6600ad87336484d258849d2bf36d010
[03/11] patman: Add a .patman-defaults file for U-Boot
        commit: a24a86b547700359e46b4ae87731985661fe3334
[04/11] patman: Replace the tool with a stub for patch-manager
        commit: f2cf4315339271d48b40628c04c25be24c231a4f
[05/11] patman: Remove the test suite
        commit: f7a4848a9ca37add093628a3f60fb79201eb5fe6
[06/11] patman: Remove the patch-management code
        commit: 91b94aff149d2c6efe3afa81adaf5edcc6119221
[07/11] CI: Install pylibfdt's requirements in the tool jobs
        commit: d4e3ef0b0ae95406b5c235c06ae8d4b80efdb6c5
[08/11] CI: Stop building and testing patman
        commit: bb74c34fd6439463827db07d0198457f1202ada0
[09/11] tools: docker: Drop patman from the CI image
        commit: 5c2d490539e9c15e863d5d8e476467724c60f87b
[10/11] tools: Stop packaging patman as a pip module
        commit: c2f2085b1540146fd2a229342366622d1970cd90
[11/11] test: Stop running the patman tests
        commit: c8db1555251aada7478f4fbad7e643bed02a8cbe
-- 
Tom