[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

[Dwaipayan Ray]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:53 PM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 23:09 +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.
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > +                                             if ($address1 =~ /(\S+)\+\S+(\@.*)/) {
> > +                                                     $address1 = $1.$2;
>
> More common in this code is "$1" . "$2" not $1.$2
>
> > @@ -6891,9 +6917,29 @@ sub process {
> []
> > +                     # 4 -> names match, addresses excuding mail extensions (subaddresses) match
>
> excluding
>
> perhaps "subaddress detail" instead of "mail extensions (subaddresses)"
>
> And maybe add "from RFC 5233"
>
> > +
> > +                     my $sob_msg = "'From: $author' != 'Signed-off-by: $author_sob'";
> > +
> > +                     if ($authorsignoff == 0) {
> > +                             WARN("NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF",
> > +                                  "Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author '$author'\n");
> > +                     } elsif ($authorsignoff == 2) {
> > +                             WARN("NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF",
> > +                                  "From:/Signed-off-by: email name mismatch:\n$sob_msg\n");
>
>
> Still no need for a newline to separate the output message.
>

Thanks, I will fix these.

Are there any more changes needed? I shall try to wrap it
in v3 then.

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.