linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] checkpatch: Warn about sign offs if there's an accidental patch separator

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Message-ID: <45e299a4c4326d46360955758df7d3df58613255.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:46:04 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com>, Dwaipayan Ray	
 <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Stephen
 Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] checkpatch: Warn about sign offs if there's an
 accidental patch separator

On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 07:39 -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> I was the author of it. The patch passed checkpatch.pl but then
> created a commit with missing tags - ie it was broken. This patch is
> fixing this issue so that checkpatch.pl will warn about the missing
> tags prior to the patch being sent to LKML, which is kind of
> checkpatch.pl's purpose. This is all detailed in the commit message.

Whatever was the tool that applied the patch should be fixed instead.