linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve handling of email comments

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Message-ID: <9d5c8699f94481ab5bf2d37348199ca1d6343c8b.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 04:54:11 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com,
        yashsri421@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve handling of email comments

On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 14:37 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> checkpatch has limited support for parsing email comments. It only
> support single name comments or single after address comments.
> Whereas, RFC 5322 specifies that comments can be inserted in
> between any tokens of the email fields.
> 
> Improve comment parsing mechanism in checkpatch.
> 
> What is handled now:
> 
> - Multiple name/address comments
> - Comments anywhere in between name/address
> - Nested comments like (John (Doe))
>
> A brief analysis of checkpatch output on v5.0..v5.7 showed that
> after these modifications, the number of BAD_SIGN_OFF warnings
> came down from 2944 to 1424, and FROM_SIGN_OFF_MISMATCH came
> down from 2366 to 2330.
> 
> So, a total of 1556 false positives were resolved in total.

A mere reduction in messages emitted isn't necessarily good.

Please send me privately a complete list of these nominally
false positive messages that are no longer emitted.

I believe one of the relatively common incorrect messages is
for the cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> where a version number is
continued on the same line after a #.

CC: stable@...r.kernel.org # for versions x.y.z and above