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/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