On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:26:58AM -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. > > This patch is not extensible. > > If this is to be done at all, the Co-Developed-by: > should not be a special case because a new and > different one might be added in the future.
I agree, fixing individual corner cases is bad style. > Better to verify that a case insensitive match exists > in $signature_tags and then complain if the match is > not exact. I'll have a go at this. thanks, Tobin.