From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:37:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d8396cb33b33c3d0107ba701b7e597041dfdbc2.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201005192409.192317-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 00:54 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.
When you run tests for this, how many mismatches are
caused by name formatting changes like:
From: "Developer, J. Random" <jrd@bigcorp.com>
...
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@bigcorp.com>?
Should these differences generate a warning?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-05 19:24 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-05 19:37 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-10-05 20:07 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-05 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-06 4:23 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-06 4:38 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-10-06 13:15 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-06 18:28 ` Joe Perches
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