Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751941AbbECUOJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 16:14:09 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751471AbbECUN6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 16:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: <55468182.3030706@nod.at> Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 22:13:54 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Glass CC: LKML , Doug Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add patman patch automation script References: <1430677797-20490-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1430677797-20490-2-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1506 Lines: 40 Simon, Am 03.05.2015 um 21:54 schrieb Simon Glass: > Hi Richard, > > On 3 May 2015 at 13:16, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >>> 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 >> >> Don't get me wrong but is this really worth 3000+ lines of python? >> The tasks you describe can be done using a few lines bash. > > #!/bin/bash > patman $@ > > I obviously failed in my attempt to briefly explain what it does. > Please check out the cover letter [1], README [2], or perhaps use it > on a series. With respect to the length, it could be slimmed down a > bit if that is important. the README file did the trick. ;) Sounds like a useful tool to manage patch series. But I don't think it makes much sense to carry it with the Linux kernel tree. Other projects can also use it and it does not seem to be very Linux kernel specific. git, quilt and other great tools also have their own repositories. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/