From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 00:08:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABJPP5B_nscUwm4m+PySN67Cp=i1aR8KXKRuAf2YdAj_950j2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2db6d34e964bd5ca65f59d1a536a61df71fc955.camel@perches.com>
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:48 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> > > Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.
>
> Likely now, the type should be changed from NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF
> to a single something else for all the other types of messages.
>
>
Since BAD_SIGNOFF is being used for a different context, then
probably BAD_AUTHOR_SIGNOFF.
Should this work or anything else you have in mind?
Thanks,
Dwaipayan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-07 6:33 [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-07 6:38 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-07 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-07 18:38 ` Dwaipayan Ray [this message]
2020-10-07 18:44 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-07 18:53 ` Dwaipayan Ray
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