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

[Dwaipayan Ray]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:14 AM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 00:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:48 PM Joe Perches <joe at 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 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.
> > >
> > >
> > 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?
>
> That may be a bit too strong a wording as these aren't
> significant/bad defects.
>
> Maybe something like FROM_SIGNOFF_MISMATCH.
>
> It's not anything that would reject the patch.
>
> It's a pity type uses both SIGNOFF and SIGN_OFF.
>
Oh right sorry, It was a "visual mistake" on my part, it's SIGN_OFF
indeed and not SIGNOFF.

And I agree with the strong wording. So I will probably make it
FROM_SIGN_OFF_MISMATCH. And after that send in a
v6. (If I run out of single digit version numbers after this, it will
be embarrassing :(  ).

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.