Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 05 2020 - 15:37:41 EST


On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 00:54 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.

When you run tests for this, how many mismatches are
caused by name formatting changes like:

From: "Developer, J. Random" <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
...
Signed-off-by: "J. Random Developer" <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxx>?

Should these differences generate a warning?