From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932538Ab1ESD7A (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 23:59:00 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:53478 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932268Ab1ESD67 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 23:58:59 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: rbVOkWK+Wbv2d9m2A+9Mgu5M7WEWQact0tfsou+TIw0U 1305777538 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:58:03 -0700 From: Greg KH To: anish singh Cc: linux-kernel-mail Subject: Re: patch for Checkpatch.pl Message-ID: <20110519035803.GA9867@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:39:57AM +0530, anish singh wrote: > I am thinking of submitting a patch for checkpatch.pl. >   > Ideally it should give a warning when there is no space between > patch submitter name and the email id as below: > Signed-off-by: anish kumar >   > It should be as below: > Signed-off-by: anish kumar >   > Please let me know if it is fine.I will send it right away as i have > it ready. As you are the only one I have ever seen do this before, I doubt it's really needed for the checkpatch script, right?