patman: Remove the -a option

It seems that this is no longer needed, since checkpatch.pl will catch
whitespace problems in patches. Also the option is not widely used, so
it seems safe to just remove it.

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.py b/tools/patman/patman.py
index ca34cb9fd8..5ab74fa251 100755
--- a/tools/patman/patman.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.py
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ import test
 
 
 parser = OptionParser()
-parser.add_option('-a', '--no-apply', action='store_false',
-                  dest='apply_patches', default=True,
-                  help="Don't test-apply patches with git am")
 parser.add_option('-H', '--full-help', action='store_true', dest='full_help',
        default=False, help='Display the README file')
 parser.add_option('-c', '--count', dest='count', type='int',
@@ -143,10 +140,6 @@ else:
         ok = checkpatch.CheckPatches(options.verbose, args)
     else:
         ok = True
-    if options.apply_patches:
-        if not gitutil.ApplyPatches(options.verbose, args,
-                                    options.count + options.start):
-            ok = False
 
     cc_file = series.MakeCcFile(options.process_tags, cover_fname,
                                 not options.ignore_bad_tags)