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

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:34:28 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 10:22 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > The patch itself is a good example.  Attached to this email is the
> > patch file in the form I keep it (from quilt, not git; note that quilt
> > doesn't do a good job of handling the "---" line so I leave it out and
> > insert it when submitting the patch).  Try saving the attachment and
> > running it through checkpatch.pl.  Here's what I get:
> 
> Andrew?
> 
> Does checkpatch emit this warning for you on
> your quilt content?

Nope.  All my patches always have From: and Subject: at the start of
changelog.