From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0011.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B3CF2E92D2 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2026 16:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767631573; cv=none; b=M8hYNfoJn9E8pJpbpmNQ7EejflFNqtVDa4kaAfRqx2crxh32WKGJoIYWlwtkDPbNdDvlVdIomzr3CF8EiTlsITbIDoDte/ptT5NZ2kvPNOR2fFH0OJTwZlBmEfF4FCCRBD0cXMoINHjsDcoKqbw5ZguuSgsB5q0cHb4+LkjSkvc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767631573; c=relaxed/simple; bh=BX02+iU2AxmtD3ZtuGQzC4wEIHzuk+DVFO5Y8S/G32U=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=q85Vb4LF//031EXq11DPpGhDPmk/x38YZ76/IzpiHiayD9Z0TPXrWopXwvSNYUKhnM0x+/oX40WRmX3P4IYjEcgr7+UA3BL/u4vwwZss8Mb723tAqxNzAEs9YlIQvRlEYza2zbEltWurHqyMuCL71Q6Om3w/JVONTWY6up1bKI8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf15.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA8D1601F1; Mon, 5 Jan 2026 16:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf15.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A339F18; Mon, 5 Jan 2026 16:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <45e299a4c4326d46360955758df7d3df58613255.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] checkpatch: Warn about sign offs if there's an accidental patch separator From: Joe Perches To: Ian Rogers , Andrew Morton Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Stephen Rothwell , Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:46:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20251205053457.8556-1-irogers@google.com> <195a2cba2b461a0ab99ae004bdf079b038db8b07.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A339F18 X-Stat-Signature: xhccs7of1jkbc5o6knhioqqct75fbqag X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout08 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1/CtNb9ICw5zLDoT9WCFla9dILQ8s1fjEM= X-HE-Tag: 1767631565-153887 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX18McxeWcyNPYxEPTjWQfVinyb1WFDZRUPseR99LpgnZX2iozNlxXUV3+9QSvrtvjlQjfwA9UEF4dIOCP8rWuWbTbcNf+fxc1w+HjxTITirrUSYiaZTpNbl5/4ZpNOb8naX+Bhk52tUnjkbuWx+Qx/YvWfMkZSHgK2hcLSVoAu87ErkL2t9R9U7iASUK5nNK3E0JTZNN4H2TdjRC9yvZk07YrW0ukMbwwvQRkInokt2wqBYp4PNyHbOB+NCJoZ9lSLilexLIW9Kz8dNkVjmLPHTV+8oezObXupVCd99E88k8AZZ1Db39qG6M On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 07:39 -0800, Ian Rogers wrote: > I was the author of it. The patch passed checkpatch.pl but then > created a commit with missing tags - ie it was broken. This patch is > fixing this issue so that checkpatch.pl will warn about the missing > tags prior to the patch being sent to LKML, which is kind of > checkpatch.pl's purpose. This is all detailed in the commit message. Whatever was the tool that applied the patch should be fixed instead.