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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for tag Co-Developed-by
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:34:26 -0800
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On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 11:59 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Recently signature tag Co-Developed-by was added to the
> kernel (Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst). checkpatch.pl doesn't know
> about it yet. All prior tags used all lowercase characters except for first
> character. Checks for this format had to be re-worked to allow for the
> new tag.
> 
> Add checkpatch checks for Co-Developed-by tag.
[]
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi:
>  	Reviewed-by:|
>  	Reported-by:|
>  	Suggested-by:|
> +	Co-Developed-by:|

I think the extra hyphenate form is poor at best.
Codeveloped-by: should be the only form.