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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch for Checkpatch.pl
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:30:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519043053.GA10187@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimNqAwy8S9EF2KMU_af4Q+RoXsuqA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:33:08AM +0530, anish singh wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
>     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<anish@gmail.com>
>     >  
>     > It should be as below:
>     > Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish@gmail.com>
>     >  
>     > 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?
> 
> Yes my bad but when we don't add space after Signed-off-by:_
> it says that space is required.So thought this is also required.
> Anyway if it is not needed i am ok.

If it's a simple patch, that's fine, send it in.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19  4:32 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <BANLkTikYRvHb0ffdpdzpiTh7S+Ayxw1wew@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-19  3:58 ` patch for Checkpatch.pl Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <BANLkTimNqAwy8S9EF2KMU_af4Q+RoXsuqA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-19  4:30     ` Greg KH [this message]

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