linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow tags between co-developed-by and their sign-off

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Message-ID: <5c90cc43b65149f92ab92e04c7c276dbba649222.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:07:44 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow tags between co-developed-by and
 their sign-off

On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 11:24 +0200, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> On 10/21/23 00:34, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-10-20 at 15:21 +0200, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> > > Allow additional tags between Co-developed-by: and Signed-off-by:.
> > > Bump severity of missing SoB to ERROR.
[]
> > Unless this is accepted by various process folk,
> > and the documentation for it updated, I think this
> > should not be applied.
> 
> I will post v2 with docs updated. Would make it clear in commit message
> that immediateness of SoB after CdB was important for humans checking
> presence of both manually, and checkpatch has adopted such requirement
> for it's own comfort.

checkpatch does not adopt stuff "for it's own comfort".