Re: patch for Checkpatch.pl

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:33:08AM +0530, anish singh wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:39:57AM +0530, anish singh wrote:
>     > I am thinking of submitting a patch for checkpatch.pl.
>     >  
>     > Ideally it should give a warning when there is no space between
>     > patch submitter name and the email id as below:
>     > Signed-off-by: anish kumar<anish@xxxxxxxxx>
>     >  
>     > It should be as below:
>     > Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish@xxxxxxxxx>
>     >  
>     > Please let me know if it is fine.I will send it right away as i have
>     > it ready.
> 
>     As you are the only one I have ever seen do this before, I doubt it's
>     really needed for the checkpatch script, right?
> 
> Yes my bad but when we don't add space after Signed-off-by:_
> it says that space is required.So thought this is also required.
> Anyway if it is not needed i am ok.

If it's a simple patch, that's fine, send it in.

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