[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] checkpatch: Improve accuracy and specificity of sign-off checking.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Sun Aug 12 21:23:13 UTC 2018


On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 07:43:14AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 09:54:01AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> > Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
> > 
> > > This also makes a start at a testsuite for checkpatch.
> > >
> > > CC: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at bytheb.org>
> > 
> > Thanks for this work, Ben!
> > 
> > There's one more case that we could possibly consider (but it's rare
> > enough that maybe it's not that big of a deal to let it stand for now),
> > encompassed by commit 52e20a3d6c8b.
> > 
> > Once this goes in I'll fix the bot up to add a signoff (so that the
> > warning is squelched :).
> 
> I guess another way would be to make checkpatch ignore some particular
> committer, e.g. "Nobody <nobody at example.com>" and not complain about the
> lack of sign-off.

Or the robot could just use the author as committer as well.


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