diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index 02d5829..f40defb 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -474,6 +474,11 @@
 not later when you can't remember which patch you changed. You can always
 go back and change or remove logs from commits.
 
+7. Some mailing lists have size limits and when we add binary contents to
+our patches it's easy to exceed the size limits. Use "--no-binary" to
+generate patches without any binary contents. You are supposed to include
+a link to a git repository in your "Commit-notes", "Series-notes" or
+"Cover-letter" for maintainers to fetch the original commit.
 
 Other thoughts
 ==============
diff --git a/tools/patman/gitutil.py b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
index 770a051..72fc95d 100644
--- a/tools/patman/gitutil.py
+++ b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
     if result.return_code != 0:
         raise OSError('git fetch: %s' % result.stderr)
 
-def CreatePatches(start, count, series):
+def CreatePatches(start, count, ignore_binary, series):
     """Create a series of patches from the top of the current branch.
 
     The patch files are written to the current directory using
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@
     if series.get('version'):
         version = '%s ' % series['version']
     cmd = ['git', 'format-patch', '-M', '--signoff']
+    if ignore_binary:
+        cmd.append('--no-binary')
     if series.get('cover'):
         cmd.append('--cover-letter')
     prefix = series.GetPatchPrefix()
diff --git a/tools/patman/main.py b/tools/patman/main.py
index 72c67b8..2951836 100755
--- a/tools/patman/main.py
+++ b/tools/patman/main.py
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
                   default=False, help='Create patches as a single thread')
 parser.add_option('--cc-cmd', dest='cc_cmd', type='string', action='store',
        default=None, help='Output cc list for patch file (used by git)')
+parser.add_option('--no-binary', action='store_true', dest='ignore_binary',
+                  default=False,
+                  help="Do not output contents of changes in binary files")
 parser.add_option('--no-check', action='store_false', dest='check_patch',
                   default=True,
                   help="Don't check for patch compliance")
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@
     if options.count:
         series = patchstream.GetMetaData(options.start, options.count)
         cover_fname, args = gitutil.CreatePatches(options.start, options.count,
-                series)
+                options.ignore_binary, series)
 
     # Fix up the patch files to our liking, and insert the cover letter
     patchstream.FixPatches(series, args)