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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff
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On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 18:45 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> To summarize it, two changes that could be made are
> the CHK for subaddress extension could be converted to
> a WARN, and the WARN in case of a missing author signoff
> could be converted to an ERROR.

Sure, why not...