Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Clarify the usage and sign-off requirements for Co-developed-by

From: Tobin C. Harding
Date: Thu Mar 21 2019 - 19:36:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:47:26PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 12:23 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:43:16AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > The documentation for Co-developed-by is a bit light on details, e.g. it
> > > doesn't explicitly state that:
> > >
> > > - Multiple Co-developed-by tags are perfectly acceptable
> > > - Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by must be paired together
> > > - SOB ordering should still follow standard sign-off procedure
>
> While I still think co-developed-by: is unnecessary and
> almost none of the existing uses of this have this
> sequence of "Co-developed-by: <name/email>" followed directly
> by "Signed-off-by: <same name/email>", here's a possible
> checkpatch addition for it.

Tested-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Catches missing SOB of co-developer.

Hope this helps,
Tobin.