Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:36:12 +0530 anish singh wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 09:39 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:36:38 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:03 +0530, anish singh wrote:
> > > > > \s[a-zA-Z]* => this is a regular expression for name & space b/w
> > > > > Last/First name
> > > > >                     Ex: anish kumar
> > > > > .* => It is used to grep whatever follows name...in our context
> > > > > mail-id
> > > > >         Ex: abc@bbc.com.
> > > > > So, $1 will contain ...'anish kumar <anish@gmail.com>'
> > > > Unless the email contains a quote or a period like:
> > > > Signed-off-by: "J. Random Contributor" <jrc@domain.tld>
> > > and quotes are not required (i.e., are optional) AFAIK.
> >
> > And still should be accepted.
> >
> if ($1 !~ /^\s+([a-zA-Z\s\"]*.*)/i) {
>             WARN("Space required after $sign\n" .
>             $herecurr);
>   }
>  if ($1 !~ /[\sa-zA-Z\"]*\s<.*>/i) {
>  WARN("Space required b/w Full Name & Mail-id:\n" .

"b/w" is not a good abbreviation (for "between" ???).

>                                                         $herecurr);
>                                         }
> Qoute has been taken care too now.


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~Randy
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