linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: process: Add "Root-caused-by" and "Suggested-by"

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:13:20 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: process: Add "Root-caused-by" and "Suggested-by"

On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 16:37 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> As recently pointed out by Linus, "Root-caused-by" is a good tag to include
> since it can indicate significantly more work than "just" a Reported-by.
> This adds it and "Suggested-by" (which was also missing) to the documented
> list of tags. Additionally updates checkpatch.pl to match the process docs.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -464,9 +464,11 @@ our $logFunctions = qr{(?x:
>  our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi:
>  	Signed-off-by:|
>  	Acked-by:|
> +	Co-Developed-by:|
>  	Tested-by:|
>  	Reviewed-by:|
>  	Reported-by:|
> +	Root-caused-by:|
>  	Suggested-by:|
>  	To:|
>  	Cc:

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