[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: Documentation: include sign off for reverts

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:27 PM Aditya <yashsri421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/20 8:19 pm, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:42 PM Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding
> >> the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to
> >> the users.
> >>
> >> On evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF over v4.13..v5.8, it was found that
> > Just some minor nitpicking on wording:
> >
> > Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed that
> >> 4 out of 11 cases for this error is because of missing sign offs in
> >
> > 4 out of 11 cases missing a sign-off are revert commits.
> >
> >> revert commits.
> >>
> >> Add documentation regarding the same.
> >>
> >
> > ...to document the community consensus and let readers know.
> >
> > Send the revised patch out to the appropriate developers and mailing
> > lists and please CC me and Joe (because it is also on checkpatch
> > rules).
> >
> Thanks for reviewing. I have updated the message.
> Actually when I ran ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl over this patch I am
> getting a long list of maintainers, so I wanted to confirm once if I
> should send to everyone in this list.
>
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> (maintainer:DOCUMENTATION,commit_signer:9/11=82%)
> Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com>
> (commit_signer:4/11=36%,authored:4/11=36%,added_lines:53/80=66%,removed_lines:212/228=93%)

It could be that Drew was contracted long ago and is not in the
community anymore.

You can drop these five people:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei at kernel.org>
> (commit_signer:2/11=18%,authored:2/11=18%,added_lines:9/80=11%,removed_lines:13/228=6%)
> Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> (commit_signer:2/11=18%,authored:2/11=18%,added_lines:9/80=11%)
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> (commit_signer:1/11=9%)
> "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster at al2klimov.de> (authored:1/11=9%)
> Tom Rix <trix at redhat.com> (added_lines:5/80=6%)

These are the right mailing lists:

> linux-doc at vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION)
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org (open list)
>


Lukas