linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH -mmots] checkpatch: add fix for non-standard signature

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Date:   Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:31:11 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Aditya <yashsri421@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH -mmots] checkpatch: add fix for
 non-standard signature - co-authored-by

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 20:25 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:00:58PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:56 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:59:54AM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:59 AM Aditya <yashsri421@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 3/12/20 12:26 am, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 00:00 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> > > > > > > Currently, checkpatch.pl warns us for BAD_SIGN_OFF on the usage of
> > > > > > > non-standard signatures.
[]
> > > co-developed-by is the correct tag for this.  It is documented exactly
> > > for this reason, please do not try to use something that is not already
> > > accepted by the kernel developers for this type of thing.

Postel's law should apply here.

And there is a concurrent thread on the ksummit-discuss mailing list
that applies:

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit-discuss/CAFhKne9ZSbwrH6-g7og2BBEEDGd6ScDnZTNg3znQLvLDCDfeoA@mail.gmail.com/T/#t

I hope all this becomes moot eventually.