Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 06 2020 - 14:55:28 EST


On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:21 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.
>
> For example, running checkpatch on commit be6577af0cef
> ("parisc: Add atomic64_set_release() define to avoid CPU soft lockups"),
> gives:

Aren't you still missing emitting an message for cases like

From: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" (BigCorp) <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Where a comment does not match?