Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: Perfecting checkpatch.pl

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:27:15PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 31 October 2018 at 12:00, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:35:15PM +0000, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> >> Perhaps checkpatch.pl should make sure the commit messages do not contain "address@hidden" and "Reviewed-off-by"?
> >>
> >> $ git log | grep address@hidden
> >>     Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Ronald Hecht <address@hidden>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Justin Chevrier <address@hidden>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Justin Chevrier <address@hidden>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Justin Chevrier <address@hidden>
> >
> > This makes sense...
> >
> >>
> >> $ git log | grep Reviewed-off-by
> >>     Reviewed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
> >>     Reviewed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> >
> > but I'm not convinced it is worth doing this, because the set of
> > mistakes people have made is enourmous, so it turns into a game
> > of whack-a-mole.
> 
> You could have checkpatch whitelist the sensible ones:
> 
> >    3127 Acked-by
> >    1834 Reported-by
> >   30991 Reviewed-by
> >   97837 Signed-off-by
> >     660 Suggested-by
> >    1951 Tested-by
> 
> and warn about the rest...

I guess warning would be ok - I don't want to discourage people from
being creative and "singing off" their patches :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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