On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:34:26PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 11:59 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Recently signature tag Co-Developed-by was added to the > > kernel (Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst). checkpatch.pl doesn't know > > about it yet. All prior tags used all lowercase characters except for first > > character. Checks for this format had to be re-worked to allow for the > > new tag. > > > > Add checkpatch checks for Co-Developed-by tag. > [] > > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > > @@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi: > > Reviewed-by:| > > Reported-by:| > > Suggested-by:| > > + Co-Developed-by:| > > I think the extra hyphenate form is poor at best. > Codeveloped-by: should be the only form.
That's not what Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst says, sorry. So Tobin's patch is correct. thanks, greg k-h