[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/1] patman: README documentation nits

the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test, and adjust a directory location (it's 'tools/patman' instead of 'tools/scripts/patman')
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de --- tools/patman/README | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 8cffcd1..b26573a 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -452,12 +452,12 @@ Most of these are indicated by a TODO in the code.
It would be nice if this could handle the In-reply-to side of things.
-The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the -t flag to run them, +The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the --test flag to run them, and make sure you are in the tools/scripts/patman directory first:
$ cd /path/to/u-boot - $ cd tools/scripts/patman - $ patman -t + $ cd tools/patman + $ patman --test
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g. putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de wrote:
the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test, and adjust a directory location (it's 'tools/patman' instead of 'tools/scripts/patman')
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de
Acked-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Thanks!

adjust instructions for the invocation of Patman's self test: the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test; adjust a directory location and make sure to run the file which resides in the source directory
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de --- tools/patman/README | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
changes in v2: - fix another previously missed directory location - prefix script with './' since '.' is usually not in $PATH
couldn't determine the appropriate subsystem/tree and corresponding custodian for this patch, who'd pick it up and thus is to Cc: to? Simon, can you take it?
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 8cffcd1..c954989 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -452,12 +452,12 @@ Most of these are indicated by a TODO in the code.
It would be nice if this could handle the In-reply-to side of things.
-The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the -t flag to run them, -and make sure you are in the tools/scripts/patman directory first: +The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the --test flag to run them, +and make sure you are in the tools/patman directory first:
$ cd /path/to/u-boot - $ cd tools/scripts/patman - $ patman -t + $ cd tools/patman + $ ./patman --test
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g. putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de wrote:
adjust instructions for the invocation of Patman's self test: the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test; adjust a directory location and make sure to run the file which resides in the source directory
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de
Acked-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Tom, would you like to pick this fix up now, or should I do it in the next merge window?

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:51:08AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de wrote:
adjust instructions for the invocation of Patman's self test: the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test; adjust a directory location and make sure to run the file which resides in the source directory
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de
Acked-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Tom, would you like to pick this fix up now, or should I do it in the next merge window?
I shall pick this up later today, thanks!

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:27:45AM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
adjust instructions for the invocation of Patman's self test: the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test; adjust a directory location and make sure to run the file which resides in the source directory
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig gsi@denx.de Acked-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
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Gerhard Sittig
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Simon Glass
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Tom Rini