linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

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Date:   Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:37:35 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        lukas.bulwahn@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff
 checks.

On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 00:54 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.

When you run tests for this, how many mismatches are
caused by name formatting changes like:

From: "Developer, J. Random" <jrd@...corp.com>
...
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@...corp.com>?

Should these differences generate a warning?