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 v4] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:55:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8553d6679f97ae9d285a9ffd61198f5e3c11dc35.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201006185114.168358-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:21 +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.
>
> For example, running checkpatch on commit be6577af0cef
> ("parisc: Add atomic64_set_release() define to avoid CPU soft lockups"),
> gives:
Aren't you still missing emitting an message for cases like
From: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@bigcorp.com>
[...]
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" (BigCorp) <jrd@bigcorp.com>
Where a comment does not match?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 18:51 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-06 18:55 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-10-06 19:01 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-06 20:09 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-06 20:11 ` Joe Perches
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