[PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Don't complain about nominal authors if there isn't one

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 16:55:17 EST


checkpatch.pl shouldn't warn about a "Missing Signed-off-by: line by
nominal patch author" if there is no nominal patch author. Without
this change, checkpatch always gives me the following warning:

WARNING: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author ''

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: usb-devel/scripts/checkpatch.pl
===================================================================
--- usb-devel.orig/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ usb-devel/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6673,7 +6673,7 @@ sub process {
if ($signoff == 0) {
ERROR("MISSING_SIGN_OFF",
"Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)\n");
- } elsif (!$authorsignoff) {
+ } elsif ($author ne '' && !$authorsignoff) {
WARN("NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF",
"Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author '$author'\n");
}