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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-07T06:55:49Z

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:34:26PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

That's not what Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst says, sorry.

So Tobin's patch is correct.

thanks,

greg k-h