Messages in this thread | | | From | Lukas Bulwahn <> | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:44:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add fix and improve warning msg for Non-standard signature |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:26 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-11-24 at 07:54 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:33 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > [] > > Maybe a patch reduced to the very obvious synonyms helps newcomers or > > people with lousy memory to be reminded that it is called > > "Co-developed-by:" not "Co-authored-by". > > I have no issue with proximity matching for nominally invalid uses. > I think the method used wasn't great though. > For trivial spelling defects, levenshtein might work well enough. >
Yes, that is true. Aditya has actually created two patches, one using some edit distance to find matches and one using a fixed match for those cases (the one you see here). Both patches complement each other. But he has only sent the second patch to you yet.
I guess when the other patch is sent out, it is a much clearer full picture how this fix option will work.
Lukas
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