commit e8d2a12e6ad86380558108f674ce45f42229f3e2
author Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Fri Sep 01 20:57:53 2017 +1200
committer Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Mon Sep 11 21:43:58 2017 -0600
tree cfc1211c0b45c8185592b4354864e360774d2466
parent 1c87931627c0ed28ca01a953296ee793d694ba97

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>>

tools/patman/README

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index e36857d..8582ed6 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@
 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

tools/patman/series.py

diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py
index d3947a7..73ee394 100644
--- a/tools/patman/series.py
+++ b/tools/patman/series.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 import get_maintainer
 import gitutil
+import settings
 import terminal
 
 # Series-xxx tags that we understand
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@
         Return:
             Filename of temp file created
         """
+        col = terminal.Color()
         # Look for commit tags (of the form 'xxx:' at the start of the subject)
         fname = '/tmp/patman.%d' % os.getpid()
         fd = open(fname, 'w')
@@ -233,6 +235,9 @@
                 cc += add_maintainers
             elif add_maintainers:
                 cc += get_maintainer.GetMaintainer(commit.patch)
+            for x in set(cc) & set(settings.bounces):
+                print(col.Color(col.YELLOW, 'Skipping "%s"' % x))
+            cc = set(cc) - set(settings.bounces)
             cc = [m.encode('utf-8') if type(m) != str else m for m in cc]
             all_ccs += cc
             print(commit.patch, ', '.join(set(cc)), file=fd)

tools/patman/settings.py

diff --git a/tools/patman/settings.py b/tools/patman/settings.py
index 5f207f5..d735ff9 100644
--- a/tools/patman/settings.py
+++ b/tools/patman/settings.py
@@ -269,6 +269,19 @@
         if bad_line:
             print(bad_line)
 
+def _ReadBouncesFile(fname):
+    """Read in the bounces file if it exists
+
+    Args:
+        fname: Filename to read.
+    """
+    if os.path.exists(fname):
+        with open(fname) as fd:
+            for line in fd:
+                if line.startswith('#'):
+                    continue
+                bounces.add(line.strip())
+
 def Setup(parser, project_name, config_fname=''):
     """Set up the settings module by reading config files.
 
@@ -293,10 +306,15 @@
     for name, value in config.items('alias'):
         alias[name] = value.split(',')
 
+    _ReadBouncesFile('doc/bounces')
+    for name, value in config.items('bounces'):
+        bounces.add(value)
+
     _UpdateDefaults(parser, config)
 
 # These are the aliases we understand, indexed by alias. Each member is a list.
 alias = {}
+bounces = set()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import doctest