linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: check Signed-off-by: lines for patches coming from stdin

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:47:49 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: check Signed-off-by: lines for patches
 coming from stdin

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 15:20 +0100, Javi Merino wrote:
> Commit 34d8815f9512 ("checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe
> to show filenames") disabled the ability to check for Signed-off-by
> lines in patches that are fed to scripts/checkpatch.pl from stdin.  This
> makes things like:
> 
> git rebase --interactive --exec 'git format-patch --stdout -1 | scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -'

This is akin to running checkpatch on patches to the stable tree.
Generally unnecessary.

I think patches should never be committed without a sign-off so
the concept of using checkpatch when rebasing is fundamentally
odd, but <shrug>, different workflows for different folks.

You should add a "Reference: http://xkcd.com/1172/" line to the
commit message.


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