Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Dec 14 2018 - 15:16:38 EST


On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:35:28 +0100 Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As per Documentation/process/submitting-patches, Co-developed-by is a
> valid signature.
>

I'm with Joe - I find this tag kinda useless and duplicative. But whatever.

But as the documentation says, Co-developed-by must be accompanied by a
Signed-off-by:. It would be helpful if checkpatch were to detect a
failure to do this.