Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add checking if from-author sign-off is last

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 00:42 +0100, Philipp Bruegmann wrote:
> Print a check if the last Signed-off-by is by the From: author.
> 
> submitting-patches.rst states 'the last Signed-off-by: must always be
> that of the developer submitting the patch.'.
> This patch tries to enforce this, under the assumption that the From:
> author is that developer.

Bad assumption.  Commonly the person submitting a patch
is an upstream maintainer, not the developer.