patman: Add a few more helpers to the tools library

[oweals/u-boot.git] / tools / patman / README

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index e36857dedea1d0dbafa41732aaf9bf0988d63f38..7917fc8bdc33204187c7b3d276eafc184824cd97 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0+
-#
 
 What is this?
 =============
@@ -84,6 +82,18 @@ 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
@@ -97,6 +107,7 @@ patman.py.  For reference, the useful ones (at the moment) shown below
 ignore_errors: True
 process_tags: False
 verbose: True
+smtp_server: /path/to/sendmail
 
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