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>>

diff --git a/doc/bounces b/doc/bounces
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d1c5f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/bounces
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# List of addresses picked up by patman/get_maintainer.pl that are known to
+# bounce. Addresses are listed one per line and need to match the author
+# information recorded in git.

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index e36857dedea1d0dbafa41732aaf9bf0988d63f38..8582ed6ba12cca5149a946b26b2be9cc4702c79f 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -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

diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py
index d3947a7c2ac5ce7ac09793777ccea681f84c88a6..73ee39448614eb5488cffae84d7742099e573ee3 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/series.py
+++ b/tools/patman/series.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import os
 
 import get_maintainer
 import gitutil
+import settings
 import terminal
 
 # Series-xxx tags that we understand
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ class Series(dict):
         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 @@ class Series(dict):
                 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)

diff --git a/tools/patman/settings.py b/tools/patman/settings.py
index 5f207f5ef1c476fd522faebb4962a23c85399c2d..d735ff9ba3c663be9510019724b247dd8c11d330 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/settings.py
+++ b/tools/patman/settings.py
@@ -269,6 +269,19 @@ def _ReadAliasFile(fname):
         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 @@ def Setup(parser, project_name, config_fname=''):
     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