Commit ce0338df authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures

Warn on non-standard signature styles.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b34a26f3
...@@ -1600,13 +1600,17 @@ sub process { ...@@ -1600,13 +1600,17 @@ sub process {
# Check signature styles # Check signature styles
if (!$in_header_lines && if (!$in_header_lines &&
$line =~ /^(\s*)($signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/) { $line =~ /^(\s*)([a-z0-9_-]+by:|$signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/i) {
my $space_before = $1; my $space_before = $1;
my $sign_off = $2; my $sign_off = $2;
my $space_after = $3; my $space_after = $3;
my $email = $4; my $email = $4;
my $ucfirst_sign_off = ucfirst(lc($sign_off)); my $ucfirst_sign_off = ucfirst(lc($sign_off));
if ($sign_off !~ /$signature_tags/) {
WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
"Non-standard signature: $sign_off\n" . $herecurr);
}
if (defined $space_before && $space_before ne "") { if (defined $space_before && $space_before ne "") {
WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
"Do not use whitespace before $ucfirst_sign_off\n" . $herecurr); "Do not use whitespace before $ucfirst_sign_off\n" . $herecurr);
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