[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1 at 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.