Re: [PATCH] doc: process: Add "Root-caused-by" and "Suggested-by"

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 21 2018 - 21:16:41 EST


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 16:37 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> As recently pointed out by Linus, "Root-caused-by" is a good tag to include
>> since it can indicate significantly more work than "just" a Reported-by.
>> This adds it and "Suggested-by" (which was also missing) to the documented
>> list of tags. Additionally updates checkpatch.pl to match the process docs.
> []
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
>> @@ -464,9 +464,11 @@ our $logFunctions = qr{(?x:
>> our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi:
>> Signed-off-by:|
>> Acked-by:|
>> + Co-Developed-by:|
>> Tested-by:|
>> Reviewed-by:|
>> Reported-by:|
>> + Root-caused-by:|
>> Suggested-by:|
>> To:|
>> Cc:
>
> Patch does not match commit description

Hm? Why not? It's updating checkpatch.pl to match the process docs.
checkpatch.pl was missing Co-Developed-by and Root-caused-by, relative
to the process docs.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security