From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3F6C43387 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF112086D for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730717AbeLNUQg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:16:36 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48478 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730659AbeLNUQg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:16:36 -0500 Received: from akpm3.svl.corp.google.com (unknown [104.133.8.65]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 799E2EB1; Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:16:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz Cc: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, himanshujha199640@gmail.com, apw@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, niklas.cassel@linaro.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags Message-Id: <20181214121634.1157f2302c8ba1825fc03ad2@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1544808928-20002-3-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org> References: <1544808928-20002-1-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org> <1544808928-20002-3-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:35:28 +0100 Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote: > As per Documentation/process/submitting-patches, Co-developed-by is a > valid signature. > I'm with Joe - I find this tag kinda useless and duplicative. But whatever. But as the documentation says, Co-developed-by must be accompanied by a Signed-off-by:. It would be helpful if checkpatch were to detect a failure to do this.