Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:55:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Don't complain about nominal authors if there isn't one |
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checkpatch.pl shouldn't warn about a "Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author" if there is no nominal patch author. Without this change, checkpatch always gives me the following warning:
WARNING: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author ''
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: usb-devel/scripts/checkpatch.pl =================================================================== --- usb-devel.orig/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ usb-devel/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6673,7 +6673,7 @@ sub process { if ($signoff == 0) { ERROR("MISSING_SIGN_OFF", "Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)\n"); - } elsif (!$authorsignoff) { + } elsif ($author ne '' && !$authorsignoff) { WARN("NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF", "Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author '$author'\n"); }
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