Checkpatch being daft, Was: [PATCH -v2 08/10] m68k,mm: Extend table allocator for multiple sizes

Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-07T12:30:44Z

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:11:54PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:34 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:56:40AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > > WARNING: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author 'Peter
> > > Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>'
> > > (in all patches)
> > >
> > > I can fix that (the From?) up while applying.
> >
> > I'm not sure where that warning comes from, but if you feel it needs
> > fixing, sure. I normally only add the (Intel) thing to the SoB. I've so
> > far never had complaints about that.
>
> Checkpatch doesn't like this.

Ooh, I see, that's a relatively new warning, pretty daft if you ask me.

Now I have to rediscover how I went about teaching checkpatch to STFU ;-)

Joe, should that '$email eq $author' not ignore rfc822 comments? That
is:

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

and:

Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

are, in actual fact, the same.