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([2402:3a80:43f:b9bb:d059:d26:c75b:b30a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l190sm5361262pfl.205.2020.12.04.09.10.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:10:56 -0800 (PST) To: Lukas Bulwahn References: <280235acc0e91365f3fd3b5be5a5244eced1ff61.camel@perches.com> <20201202183045.9309-1-yashsri421@gmail.com> <5afbcd1423ee8fc2dfad191d94aef6efc17198c8.camel@perches.com> From: Aditya Message-ID: <82f6fdae-7e95-83fa-2509-6660de78b138@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 22:40:49 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH -mmots] checkpatch: add fix for non-standard signature - co-authored-by X-BeenThere: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: linux-kernel-mentees-bounces@lists.linuxfoundation.org Sender: "Linux-kernel-mentees" On 3/12/20 4:29 pm, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:59 AM Aditya wrote: >> >> On 3/12/20 12:26 am, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 00:00 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote: >>>> Currently, checkpatch.pl warns us for BAD_SIGN_OFF on the usage of >>>> non-standard signatures. >>>> >>>> An evaluation on v4.13..v5.8 showed that out of 539 warnings due to >>>> non-standard signatures, 43 are due to the use of 'Co-authored-by' >>>> tag, which may seem correct, but is not standard. >>>> >>>> The standard signature equivalent for 'Co-authored-by' is >>>> 'Co-developed-by'. >>> >>> I'm not going to ack this as I don't mind non-standard signatures. >>> >> >> What do you suggest? >> Should I drop this patch and move on? >> > > Joe does not ack this, but he also does not nack it. > > You either move on (which is perfectly fine), or > > you either wait that Andrew Morton reviews it and accepts it because > he thinks it useful, or > > you reach out to the git committers that have been using > Co-authored-by in the past and ask them if this kind of feature would > have been helpful for them and you get an ack from them that convinces > Andrew Morton to pick this. > Hi Lukas I have generated a list of users who used co-authored-by tag, ordered by the number of times they used it (over v4.13..v5.8) here: https://github.com/AdityaSrivast/kernel-tasks/blob/master/random/signature_tags/co_authors.txt However I am a bit unsure about who among these is still active and can perhaps give us Acked-by. Thanks Aditya > I hope this helps. If nobody thinks it is a useful feature, move on to > work others acknowledge as useful. We have enough stuff to work on. > > Lukas > _______________________________________________ Linux-kernel-mentees mailing list Linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-mentees