In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the
list gets mangled such that it says
John Doe via Qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
This change is a result of workarounds for DMARC policies.
Subsystem maintainers accepting patches need to catch these and fix
them before sending pull requests, so a checkpatch.pl test is highly
desirable.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 42e1c50dd8..be2114a179 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1402,6 +1402,10 @@ sub process {
$is_patch = 1;
}
+ if ($line =~ /^Author: .*via
Qemu-devel.*<qemu-devel\@nongnu.org>/) {
+ ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing
list\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
#check the patch for a signoff:
if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) {
# This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report.
--
2.17.1
