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

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:55 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> 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 ''

When/how does this occur?  Example please.

> 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");
>                 }
>