linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

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Message-ID: <8553d6679f97ae9d285a9ffd61198f5e3c11dc35.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:55:20 -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 v4] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff
 checks.

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:21 +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.
> 
> For example, running checkpatch on commit be6577af0cef
> ("parisc: Add atomic64_set_release() define to avoid CPU soft lockups"),
> gives:

Aren't you still missing emitting an message for cases like

From: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@...corp.com>
[...]
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" (BigCorp) <jrd@...corp.com>

Where a comment does not match?