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authorChris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>2017-09-01 11:57:53 +0300
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2017-09-12 06:43:58 +0300
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downloadu-boot-e11aa602abd3e8007dfd3ed23ebb829101abcfec.tar.xz
patman: add support for omitting bouncing addresses
Add support for reading a list of bouncing addresses from a in-tree file (doc/bounces) and from the ~/.patman config file. These addresses are stripped from the Cc list. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com <mailto:philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>>
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@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ Aliases are recursive.
The checkpatch.pl in the U-Boot tools/ subdirectory will be located and
used. Failing that you can put it into your path or ~/bin/checkpatch.pl
+If you want to avoid sending patches to email addresses that are picked up
+by patman but are known to bounce you can add a [bounces] section to your
+.patman file. Unlike the [alias] section these are simple key: value pairs
+that are not recursive.
+
+>>>
+
+[bounces]
+gonefishing: Fred Bloggs <f.bloggs@napier.net>
+
+<<<
+
If you want to change the defaults for patman's command-line arguments,
you can add a [settings] section to your .patman file. This can be used