From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752339Ab3KEFyb (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:54:31 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0135.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.135]:47014 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750759Ab3KEFya (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:54:30 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:960:982:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:2911:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:4250:4321:4425:5007:7652:10004:10400:10848:11026:11232:11473:11658:11914:12517:12519:12555:12679:12740:13069:13095:13161:13229:13311:13357,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: toys34_7e78edfa3cb04 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2283 Message-ID: <1383630867.4387.11.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] get_maintainer: Improve "Author:" rolestats From: Joe Perches To: Chen Gang Cc: Chen Gang F T , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:54:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: <52788606.5070002@asianux.com> References: <52738E90.6040104@asianux.com> <1383330777.3042.2.camel@joe-AO722> <52750739.6040706@gmail.com> <1383602096.28651.8.camel@joe-AO722> <52785676.8030801@asianux.com> <527859D9.30109@asianux.com> <1383629008.4387.0.camel@joe-AO722> <5278853E.2000600@asianux.com> <52788606.5070002@asianux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:45 +0800, Chen Gang wrote: > If really as what I guess above (some patches no Signed-of-by), is there > a tool to check and find this issue in time? scripts/checkpatch.pl bleats a message on missing sign-offs. For instance: $ cat cache.diff include/linux/cache.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h index 4c57065..17e7e82 100644 --- a/include/linux/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/cache.h @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ #ifndef __LINUX_CACHE_H #define __LINUX_CACHE_H -#include +#include #include #ifndef L1_CACHE_ALIGN -#define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x) ALIGN(x, L1_CACHE_BYTES) +#define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x) __ALIGN_KERNEL(x, L1_CACHE_BYTES) #endif #ifndef SMP_CACHE_BYTES $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl cache.diff ERROR: Missing Signed-off-by: line(s) total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 13 lines checked cache.diff has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.