The cover letter is sent to everyone who is on the Cc list for any of the patches in the series. Sometimes it is useful to send just the cover letter to additional people, so that they are aware of the series, but don't need to wade through all the individual patches.
Add a new Cover-letter-cc tag for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org --- tools/patman/README | 12 +++++++++++- tools/patman/patchstream.py | 8 ++++++++ tools/patman/series.py | 11 ++++++++--- 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index c0657bc..d4e7f36 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ END Sets the cover letter contents for the series. The first line will become the subject of the cover letter
+Cover-letter-cc: email / alias + Additional email addresses / aliases to send cover letter to (you + can add this multiple times) + Series-notes: blah blah blah blah @@ -263,7 +267,13 @@ will create a patch which is copied to x86, arm, sandbox, mikef, ag and afleming.
If you have a cover letter it will get sent to the union of the CC lists of -all of the other patches. +all of the other patches. If you want to sent it to additional people you +can add a tag: + +Cover-letter-cc: <list of addresses> + +These people will get the cover letter even if they are not on the To/Cc +list for any of the patches.
Example Work Flow diff --git a/tools/patman/patchstream.py b/tools/patman/patchstream.py index 76f815b..a4f2f31 100644 --- a/tools/patman/patchstream.py +++ b/tools/patman/patchstream.py @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ re_signoff = re.compile('^Signed-off-by:') # The start of the cover letter re_cover = re.compile('^Cover-letter:')
+# A cover letter Cc +re_cover_cc = re.compile('^Cover-letter-cc: *(.*)') + # Patch series tag re_series = re.compile('^Series-(\w*): *(.*)')
@@ -153,6 +156,7 @@ class PatchStream: # Handle state transition and skipping blank lines series_match = re_series.match(line) commit_match = re_commit.match(line) if self.is_log else None + cover_cc_match = re_cover_cc.match(line) tag_match = None if self.state == STATE_PATCH_HEADER: tag_match = re_tag.match(line) @@ -205,6 +209,10 @@ class PatchStream: self.in_section = 'cover' self.skip_blank = False
+ elif cover_cc_match: + value = cover_cc_match.group(1) + self.AddToSeries(line, 'cover-cc', value) + # If we are in a change list, key collected lines until a blank one elif self.in_change: if is_blank: diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py index fab17c9..fe919be 100644 --- a/tools/patman/series.py +++ b/tools/patman/series.py @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ import gitutil import terminal
# Series-xxx tags that we understand -valid_series = ['to', 'cc', 'version', 'changes', 'prefix', 'notes', 'name']; +valid_series = ['to', 'cc', 'version', 'changes', 'prefix', 'notes', 'name', + 'cover-cc']
class Series(dict): """Holds information about a patch series, including all tags. @@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ class Series(dict): def __init__(self): self.cc = [] self.to = [] + self.cover_cc = [] self.commits = [] self.cover = None self.notes = [] @@ -69,6 +71,7 @@ class Series(dict): value: Tag value (part after 'Series-xxx: ') """ # If we already have it, then add to our list + name = name.replace('-', '_') if name in self: values = value.split(',') values = [str.strip() for str in values] @@ -140,7 +143,8 @@ class Series(dict): print 'Prefix:\t ', self.get('prefix') if self.cover: print 'Cover: %d lines' % len(self.cover) - all_ccs = itertools.chain(*self._generated_cc.values()) + cover_cc = gitutil.BuildEmailList(self.get('cover_cc', '')) + all_ccs = itertools.chain(cover_cc, *self._generated_cc.values()) for email in set(all_ccs): print ' Cc: ',email if cmd: @@ -235,7 +239,8 @@ class Series(dict): self._generated_cc[commit.patch] = list
if cover_fname: - print >>fd, cover_fname, ', '.join(set(all_ccs)) + cover_cc = gitutil.BuildEmailList(self.get('cover_cc', '')) + print >>fd, cover_fname, ', '.join(set(cover_cc + all_ccs))
fd.close() return fname