Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 07 2020 - 14:18:50 EST


On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> > Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.

Likely now, the type should be changed from NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF
to a single something else for all the other types of messages.