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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: Warn if missing author Signed-off-by
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:03 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:

> Print a warning if none of the Signed-off-by lines cover the patch
> author.
>
> Non-ASCII quoted printable encoding in From: headers and (lack of)
> double quotes are handled.
> Split From: headers are not fully handled: only the first part is
> compared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
> Tested using a set of ca. 4000 real world commits.
>
> Most common offenders are people using:
> - different email addresses for author and Sob,
> - different firstname/lastname order, or other different name
> spelling,
> - suse.de vs. suse.com.

Pretty cool patch!
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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