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 608EEC41604 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2B0206F4 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726924AbgJFSzZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:55:25 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0187.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.187]:48856 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726885AbgJFSzY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:55:24 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A006E18009D23; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:55:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: cook86_0a0e978271c9 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1403 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8553d6679f97ae9d285a9ffd61198f5e3c11dc35.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] 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: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:55:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20201006185114.168358-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> References: <20201006185114.168358-1-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 Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:21 +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. > > For example, running checkpatch on commit be6577af0cef > ("parisc: Add atomic64_set_release() define to avoid CPU soft lockups"), > gives: Aren't you still missing emitting an message for cases like From: "J. Random Developer" [...] Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" (BigCorp) Where a comment does not match?