Re: [patch v4] checkpatch: Signature format verification

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 27 2011 - 14:17:05 EST


On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 23:31 +0530, anish wrote:
> From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
>

> + my ($sign,$loop_brk);
> + my @signs = ("Reviewed-by:","Acked-by:","Signed-off-by:","Tested-by:");
> + foreach $sign (@signs) {
> + $loop_brk=0;
> + if ($line =~ /^\s*$sign/i) {
> + # This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report.
> + $signoff++;
> + $loop_brk++;
> + if (!($line =~ /^\s*$sign/)) {
> + WARN("$sign is the preferred form\n" .
> + $herecurr);
> + }
> + if ($line =~ /^\s*$sign(.*)/i) {
> + if ($1 !~ /^\s+([a-zA-Z\s\"\.\-\'\,]*.*)/i) {
> + WARN("Space required after $sign\n" .
> + $herecurr);
> + }
> + if ($1 !~ /([\sa-zA-Z\"\.\-\'\,]*)\s<.*>/i) {
> + WARN("Space required b/w Full Name & Mail-id:\n" .

What's "b/w" black and white?

Also do we check for <>. As the above will trigger for missing <> and
give a warning about spaces.

I once had my quilt mail send crap to LKML because one of the Cc's in a
patch I pulled was missing the ending ">".

-- Steve

> + $herecurr);
> + }
> + }
> }
> + last if ($loop_brk == 1);
> }
> -
> # Check for wrappage within a valid hunk of the file
> if ($realcnt != 0 && $line !~ m{^(?:\+|-| |\\ No newline|$)}) {
> ERROR("patch seems to be corrupt (line wrapped?)\n" .


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