From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:11 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4] Add 'patman' patch generation, checking and submission script In-Reply-To: References: <1326589965-4271-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <4F2C2EBB.40203@aribaud.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Simon, Le 15/01/2012 02:20, Simon Glass a ?crit : > 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 Glass 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? Amicalement, -- Albert.