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=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no 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 C4A0AC4361A for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D766221ED for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727225AbgLCTbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:31:55 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0059.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.59]:46110 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725955AbgLCTbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:31:55 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CD9180A7FFC; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:31:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: back27_4f096c0273be X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2435 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.137.21]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <26cfa56433bb87775524257ec0f5010e628837d3.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH -mmots] checkpatch: add fix for non-standard signature - co-authored-by From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH , Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Aditya , linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:31:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <280235acc0e91365f3fd3b5be5a5244eced1ff61.camel@perches.com> <20201202183045.9309-1-yashsri421@gmail.com> <5afbcd1423ee8fc2dfad191d94aef6efc17198c8.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 20:25 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:00:58PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:56 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:59:54AM +0100, 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. [] > > > co-developed-by is the correct tag for this. It is documented exactly > > > for this reason, please do not try to use something that is not already > > > accepted by the kernel developers for this type of thing. Postel's law should apply here. And there is a concurrent thread on the ksummit-discuss mailing list that applies: https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit-discuss/CAFhKne9ZSbwrH6-g7og2BBEEDGd6ScDnZTNg3znQLvLDCDfeoA@mail.gmail.com/T/#t I hope all this becomes moot eventually.