From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0017.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.17]) (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 122FD44839C; Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.17 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1785255003; cv=none; b=EwTl7Fo0Cug5TR1vB445HVfxZOtnXttC7E+kPradCJ2JBem46c1vHWR9b9hwxYK0WZrAP8NyeK/pmzTi/Kl9KNhqr/CYjf0S8QbFCxamj580O/BnbKV5PLQTB3N3qN+v79561dLBOtbikuVfwe/lZNJiXAsv806YK1u0vPZ+z9c= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1785255003; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bpztgt9P8tRPPFa5RkW2VtLWXK3gMhD8crEcuc4zIRM=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=Uun1qDCXC9d6NiqPrq0FMb6Hui8vwLGmwWkveacEhhD0M2Bj0za8NdBIFLaHRzdhptZ8Icn6A9zOn+M9gtLmYeT3caSb32B5BWUKi+kBZajYls+2s6u8Z68f409PSOsWWFuuJUyifZ3qhSp/ZkvJ7QWML6YSfjOWjf/KX3/bDz0= 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=216.40.44.17 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 omf09.hostedemail.com (lb01a-stub [10.200.18.249]) by unirelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B92A1412; Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9A21320025; Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Validate committer sign-off From: Joe Perches To: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Bjorn Andersson Cc: Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Andy Whitcroft , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:09:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: <86ef62b5-9896-49cd-9beb-4e7435a6324e@kernel.org> References: <20260724-checkpatch-committer-sob-v1-1-68550513106b@oss.qualcomm.com> <933506f1f210d3498d515d55266951e1914cbc9b.camel@perches.com> <86ef62b5-9896-49cd-9beb-4e7435a6324e@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.3 (3.58.3-1.fc43) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 9A21320025 X-Stat-Signature: aj1itiu6xkkc7qkohcueq9ji9h9pn1s7 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19MHfTlLStweo4nHWOK0YKIrG5OHRSqYak= X-HE-Tag: 1785254991-438316 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX190G+E9bwzyzMxSaxHHfkI3plpDSeyQ980TNv6kBR8KnZsPnXABK77WDQAb5eJi5Yxqv9/adrz2RHZSnZziXOlo2uIyRMgHby5xfC7fPyTcss0ZxQRiLuTQxn/mVk1UkWwbUghm+hHfTJqln8Ap2/vcXFQ5oVdwOasdO3XnP07FIxN0u3T+tbkP5Z72HlweUNy8+yP1XO9+CmNboRHgTueKVs6vvBm1hauU3PCLySKfEU1RXrsGJ+SVV8UjGQNEilXn2Gpk3kHx49WQ04QgaCNLm7F8LC4w23jXYiuPFSGvnaeQgZrum8+L On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 20:24 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 27/07/2026 19:59, Bjorn Andersson wrote: [] > > > > checkpatch validates the Signed-off-by trailers against the patch's > > > > author, but misses the opportunity to also validate the committer w= hen > > > > run with --git. Maintainers therefor need third-party scripts for t= he > > > > final Signed-off-by check. [] > The issue Bjorn is trying to solve is real and as he pointed out - every > second day maintainers fail to commit properly (srsly... still!). Some > of us implemented git commit hooks [1][2], but many still don't care > enough, even though installing such commit hook is basically 30 seconds. [] > Maybe checkpatch would help people to get it right... Alright, I'll look at this proposal more thoroughly.