Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:08:03 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Require author Signed-off-by |
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On Tue 2018-07-10 22:50:14, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:47 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > Print an error if none of the Signed-off-by lines cover the patch > > > author. > > > > Is it good idea? Signed-off-by system was _not_ meant to prevent > > submission of third party patches. > > My main motivation is catching accidentally forgotten Sobs. > It's still up to you to submit or accept a patch that triggers > checkpatch errors.
Should it be at warning level, then, or explicitely saying this is okay if you are not patch author? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |