linux-kernel - Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification

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Message-ID: <1306171117.8687.34.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 10:18:37 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	anish singh <anish198519851985@...il.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, davej@...hat.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, apw@...dowen.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	vapier@...too.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	man.k1983@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:36 +0530, anish singh wrote:
>  if ($1 !~ /[\sa-zA-Z\"]*\s<.*>/i) {
>  WARN("Space required b/w Full Name & Mail-id:\n" .
>                                                         $herecurr);
>                                         }
> Quote has been taken care too now.

If you're going to try to validate email addresses,
please do it reasonably correctly or not at all.

At a minimum you need to add digits, single quote,
period, and comma.

Look at git-send-email.perl or scripts/get_maintainer.pl
for email address validation samples.


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