PATCH] patch to generate warning when signed-of line in patch innot proper

[anish]

From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch generates warning when there is no space between the
patch submitter name and successive mail-id.

Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d867081..437c6d4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1373,10 +1373,16 @@ sub process {
 				WARN("Signed-off-by: is the preferred form\n" .
 					$herecurr);
 			}
-			if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\S/i) {
-				WARN("space required after Signed-off-by:\n" .
+			if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:(.*)/i) {
+			 if($1 !~ /^(\s[a-zA-Z].*)/i) {
+				WARN("Space required after Signed-off-by:\n" .
 					$herecurr);
 			}
+			if($1 !~ /[\sa-zA-Z]+\s<.*>/i) {
+				WARN("Space required between Full Name & Mail-id:\n" .
+					$herecurr);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 
 # Check for wrappage within a valid hunk of the file
-- 
1.7.0.4


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