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

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:16:34 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        LKML <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, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> Patch does not match commit description

Hm? Why not? It's updating checkpatch.pl to match the process docs.
checkpatch.pl was missing Co-Developed-by and Root-caused-by, relative
to the process docs.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security