From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B748FC4363A for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 19:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569C1208C3 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 19:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729454AbgJEThk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2020 15:37:40 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0088.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.88]:58328 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729302AbgJEThk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2020 15:37:40 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF3B182CF669; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 19:37:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: cord20_3611d99271c0 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1291 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 5 Oct 2020 19:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1d8396cb33b33c3d0107ba701b7e597041dfdbc2.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks. From: Joe Perches To: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:37:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20201005192409.192317-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> References: <20201005192409.192317-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 00:54 +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. When you run tests for this, how many mismatches are caused by name formatting changes like: From: "Developer, J. Random" ... Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" ? Should these differences generate a warning?