in one of your commits, the series will be sent there.
+In Linux this will also call get_maintainer.pl on each of your
+patches automatically.
+
How to use this tool
====================
How to configure it
===================
-For most cases patman will locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in
-your U-Boot directory. This contains most of the aliases you will need.
+For most cases of using patman for U-Boot developement patman will
+locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory.
+This contains most of the aliases you will need.
+
+For Linux the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' handles figuring out where
+to send patches pretty well.
During the first run patman creates a config file for you by taking the default
user name and email address from the global .gitconfig file.
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+# Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
+#
+# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+# project.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+# MA 02111-1307 USA
+#
+
+import command
+import gitutil
+import os
+
+def FindGetMaintainer():
+ """Look for the get_maintainer.pl script.
+
+ Returns:
+ If the script is found we'll return a path to it; else None.
+ """
+ try_list = [
+ os.path.join(gitutil.GetTopLevel(), 'scripts'),
+ ]
+ # Look in the list
+ for path in try_list:
+ fname = os.path.join(path, 'get_maintainer.pl')
+ if os.path.isfile(fname):
+ return fname
+
+ return None
+
+def GetMaintainer(fname, verbose=False):
+ """Run get_maintainer.pl on a file if we find it.
+
+ We look for get_maintainer.pl in the 'scripts' directory at the top of
+ git. If we find it we'll run it. If we don't find get_maintainer.pl
+ then we fail silently.
+
+ Args:
+ fname: Path to the patch file to run get_maintainer.pl on.
+
+ Returns:
+ A list of email addresses to CC to.
+ """
+ get_maintainer = FindGetMaintainer()
+ if not get_maintainer:
+ if verbose:
+ print "WARNING: Couldn't find get_maintainer.pl"
+ return []
+
+ stdout = command.Output(get_maintainer, '--norolestats', fname)
+ return stdout.splitlines()