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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700
commit8c79f4cd441b27df6cadd11b70a50e06b3b3a2bf (patch)
tree0d7fca2a5fb43fa75b51c4cdaaee493e44d56d62 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent2646719a48c21ba0cae82a3f57382a9573fd8400 (diff)
parentd9defe448f4c7b88ca2ae636a321ef8970fa718d (diff)
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph - Various build-script fixes - A new document on memory models - RST conversion of the live-patching docs - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits) docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo` scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs docs/vm: add documentation of memory models doc:it_IT: translation alignment doc: fix typo in PGP guide dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings ...
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a09333fd7cef..bb28b178d929 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2687,6 +2687,24 @@ sub process {
} else {
$signatures{$sig_nospace} = 1;
}
+
+# Check Co-developed-by: immediately followed by Signed-off-by: with same name and email
+ if ($sign_off =~ /^co-developed-by:$/i) {
+ if ($email eq $author) {
+ WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
+ "Co-developed-by: should not be used to attribute nominal patch author '$author'\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline);
+ }
+ if (!defined $lines[$linenr]) {
+ WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
+ "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline);
+ } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\s*(.*)/i) {
+ WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
+ "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]);
+ } elsif ($1 ne $email) {
+ WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
+ "Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by: name/email do not match \n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]);
+ }
+ }
}
# Check email subject for common tools that don't need to be mentioned