On 2/4/19 11:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Flag commit attribution tags that are unusual (often because they > were a typo), but only as a warning (because sometimes a humorous > or otherwise useful tag is intentionally supplied). > > This picks the 6-most popular tags, each with 700 or more uses (well, > S-o-b was already checked for case-sensitivity and typos, leaving > only 5 new tags being checked), as determined by: > $ git log | sed -n 's/^ *\([A-Za-z-]*-by:\).*/\1/p' | \ > sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1n | tail > > Most of the rejected lines were obvious typos (among others, we've > had 4 cases of someone being burnt, based on Singed-off-by; and 2 > cases of list-reading via an e-reader, based on eviewed-by; there > are also lines forgetting a space after the ':') or otherwise > tongue-in-check (3 Approximately-suggested-by). A few lines not > whitelisted here may be legitimate, but as they are orders of > magnitude rarer, it is therefore not worth worrying about > (7 Requested-by, 3 Co-authored-by, 1 Inspired-by, etc.).
'Inspired-by' is kinda Zen :) And is from Peter! > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > --- > > v2: fix regex > > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index 88682cb0a9f..4962f74eec1 100755 > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ sub process { > ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing > list\n" . $herecurr); > } > > -#check the patch for a signoff: > +#check the patch for a signoff, and that other attribution lines are typical: > if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) { > # This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report. > $signoff++; > @@ -1470,6 +1470,10 @@ sub process { > ERROR("space required after Signed-off-by:\n" . > $herecurr); > } > + } elsif($line =~ /^\s*([A-Za-z-]*)-by:/ && I guess we don't mind about angry typewriters who Ack-BY ;) > + ($1 !~ /(Suggest|Report|Test|Ack|Review)ed/ || > + $line !~ /^\s*[a-z-]*-by:\s/i)) { Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> > + WARN("suspicious attribution tag:\n" . $herecurr); > } > > # Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated. If so, there's probably no need to >