On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:25 AM Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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" <[email protected]> > [...] > Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" (BigCorp) <[email protected]> > > Where a comment does not match? > >
Yes, messages for comments were not emitted previously too cause the same_email_address() function just matches name and email (discarding name comments and email comments). So should I add it to this patch, or should I work on it in a different patch perhaps because it involves change on another subroutine? Thanks, Dwaipayan.
