linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdb: Get rid of broken attempt to print CCVERSION in kdb summary

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Date:   Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:14:27 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdb: Get rid of broken attempt to print CCVERSION in
 kdb summary

On Fri, 2019-04-19 at 12:28 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Can you detect redundant Cc: by checkpatch?
> 
> Please see below in details.
> Thanks.

Yes, but I'm not sure why it's useful or necessary.
git send-email using some scripts elides duplicate email addresses
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1c421ac42b07..bedec83cb797 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2688,6 +2688,19 @@ sub process {
 				$signatures{$sig_nospace} = 1;
 			}
 
+# Check for a cc: line with another signature -by: by the same author
+			if ($sig_nospace =~ /^cc:/) {
+				my $sig_email = substr($sig_nospace, 3);
+				foreach my $sig (sort keys %signatures) {
+					next if ($sig =~ /^cc:/);
+					$sig =~ s/^[^:]+://;
+					if ($sig eq $sig_email) {
+						WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
+						     "Unnecessary CC: as there is another signature with the same name/email address\n" . $herecurr);
+					}
+				}
+			}
+
 # Check Co-developed-by: immediately followed by Signed-off-by: with same name and email
 			if ($sign_off =~ /^co-developed-by:$/i) {
 				if ($email eq $author) {