Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new warnings to author signoff checks.

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 00:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:48 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:08 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > The author signed-off-by checks are currently very vague.
> > > > Cases like same name or same address are not handled separately.
> > 
> > Likely now, the type should be changed from NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF
> > to a single something else for all the other types of messages.
> > 
> > 
> Since BAD_SIGNOFF is being used for a different context, then
> probably BAD_AUTHOR_SIGNOFF.
>
> Should this work or anything else you have in mind?

That may be a bit too strong a wording as these aren't
significant/bad defects.

Maybe something like FROM_SIGNOFF_MISMATCH.

It's not anything that would reject the patch.

It's a pity type uses both SIGNOFF and SIGN_OFF.