Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for tag Co-Developed-by

Joe Perches
2017-12-07T06:34:34Z

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.