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| author | Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> | 2019-03-22 22:11:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-03-25 17:44:43 +0100 |
| commit | 6c5d24eef7be7adfcb608f2852ab69b58935133b (patch) | |
| tree | 928ff8d79e566621ac2da8ce45825faf49d2bf1a /scripts | |
| parent | Documentation: rtc: Correct location of rtctest.c (diff) | |
| download | linux-6c5d24eef7be7adfcb608f2852ab69b58935133b.tar.xz linux-6c5d24eef7be7adfcb608f2852ab69b58935133b.zip | |
checkpatch: Warn on improper usage of Co-developed-by
The purpose of Co-developed-by: is to give attribution to authors who
aren't already attributed by the From: tag, i.e. who aren't the nominal
patch author. Because Co-developed-by: is essentially a variation of
From:, it must be accompanied by a Signed-off-by: of the associated
co-author. To ease the burden of determining whether or not co-authors
have signed off, Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by: must be explicitly
paired, i.e. on consecutive lines for a given co-author.
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5b756278df13..bbe71f017f6d 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2687,6 +2687,24 @@ sub process { } else { $signatures{$sig_nospace} = 1; } + +# Check Co-developed-by: immediately followed by Signed-off-by: with same name and email + if ($sign_off =~ /^co-developed-by:$/i) { + if ($email eq $author) { + WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", + "Co-developed-by: should not be used to attribute nominal patch author '$author'\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline); + } + if (!defined $lines[$linenr]) { + WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", + "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline); + } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\s*(.*)/i) { + WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", + "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]); + } elsif ($1 ne $email) { + WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", + "Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by: name/email do not match \n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]); + } + } } # Check email subject for common tools that don't need to be mentioned |