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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 24 2023 - 16:07:53 EST


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.
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> > 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".