From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
jgg@mellanox.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Require author Signed-off-by
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:46:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400ec2706f9239ae1819a60df0ddcd39e067d927.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180710220803.GA6387@amd>
On Wed, 2018-07-11 at 00:08 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2018-07-10 22:50:14, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi Pavel,
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:47 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > > > Print an error if none of the Signed-off-by lines cover the patch
> > > > author.
> > >
> > > Is it good idea? Signed-off-by system was _not_ meant to prevent
> > > submission of third party patches.
> >
> > My main motivation is catching accidentally forgotten Sobs.
> > It's still up to you to submit or accept a patch that triggers
> > checkpatch errors.
>
> Should it be at warning level, then, or explicitely saying this is
> okay if you are not patch author?
Yes to both.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-10 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 12:10 Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-10 14:33 ` Joe Perches
2018-07-10 15:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-10 15:27 ` Joe Perches
2018-07-10 15:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-10 16:22 ` Joe Perches
2018-07-10 20:47 ` Pavel Machek
2018-07-10 20:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-10 22:08 ` Pavel Machek
2018-07-10 23:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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