Re: [U-Boot] patman feature request

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:

It looks like today was the day that Joe and I both decided to give patman a whirl. On IRC we both hit the same annoyance of commits like: "Cosmetic: Something" causing patman to look for a maintainer for cosmetic and failing fatally. Could we please make maintainer alias not found a warning and not a fatal error (so the human can go "oh, that's not a real area, that's fine" ? My ~/.patman is almost more fixups than real aliases.

I agree; I have also sent two minor fixes to patman and I've been putting fixups on my .patman to make it run and it does seem it would work better if it was an warn.

Another idea is to have a wildcard that matches as a fallback.