Hi Albert,
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net wrote:
Hi Simon,
Le 15/01/2012 02:20, Simon Glass a écrit :
Hi,
Hmmm patman found a tag in this commit and tried to send it to Fred Bloggs. I have added the line below - sorry for the confusion.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Simon Glasssjg@chromium.org wrote:
What is this?
This tool is a Python script which:
- Creates patch directly from your branch
- Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags
- Inserts a cover letter with change lists
- Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
- Optionally emails them out to selected people
It seems to me that this is not specific to u-boot, and as such, has no reason to be managed along with U-Boot.
Why should it not simply have its own project and resources?
It was created in response to Wolfgang's comments that the sometimes low quality of patches on the U-Boot ML chews up a lot of time.
It is not technically specific to U-Boot (since it could also be used with the Linux kernel), but that was my intent when creating it. If this goes in then I plan to look at how to automate build testing also so we can more easily see that patches are MAKEALL-clean.
The discussion at the time was here:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-October/105862.html
and the many messages which followed. My patch was in response to this.
Amicalement,
Albert.
Regards, Simon