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

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Date:   Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:28:08 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff
 checks.

On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 18:45 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> To summarize it, two changes that could be made are
> the CHK for subaddress extension could be converted to
> a WARN, and the WARN in case of a missing author signoff
> could be converted to an ERROR.

Sure, why not...