linux-kernel - Re: problem with checkpatch

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:12:26 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with checkpatch

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:31:46AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > while checking patches I usually check them using mutt pipe to checkpatch.
> > while in mutt, press '|' and then scripts/checkpatch.pl -
> > and the patch will be checked by checkpatch without having to save it.
> > 
> > Now 700152391c3d ("checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe to show filenames")
> > is adding $filename ne '-' and because of that if the patch has any
> > error in Signed-off-by , it is not detecting anymore.
> 
> Any error in signature format should still be found,
> but a missing sign-off line would not.
yes, the patch with which i noticed this was not having the Signed-off

regards
sudip
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