Re: [PATCH -next] get_maintainer: Improve "Author:" rolestats

Joe Perches
2013-11-05T05:54:31Z

On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:45 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> If really as what I guess above (some patches no Signed-of-by), is there
> a tool to check and find this issue in time?

scripts/checkpatch.pl bleats a message on missing sign-offs.

For instance:

$ cat cache.diff
include/linux/cache.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h
index 4c57065..17e7e82 100644
--- a/include/linux/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/cache.h
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_CACHE_H
#define __LINUX_CACHE_H

-#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/kernel.h>
#include <asm/cache.h>

#ifndef L1_CACHE_ALIGN
-#define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x) ALIGN(x, L1_CACHE_BYTES)
+#define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x) __ALIGN_KERNEL(x, L1_CACHE_BYTES)
#endif

#ifndef SMP_CACHE_BYTES

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl cache.diff
ERROR: Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 13 lines checked

cache.diff has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.