On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 20:24 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 27/07/2026 19:59, Bjorn Andersson wrote: [] > > > > checkpatch validates the Signed-off-by trailers against the patch's > > > > author, but misses the opportunity to also validate the committer when > > > > run with --git. Maintainers therefor need third-party scripts for the > > > > final Signed-off-by check. [] > The issue Bjorn is trying to solve is real and as he pointed out - every > second day maintainers fail to commit properly (srsly... still!). Some > of us implemented git commit hooks [1][2], but many still don't care > enough, even though installing such commit hook is basically 30 seconds. [] > Maybe checkpatch would help people to get it right...
Alright, I'll look at this proposal more thoroughly.
