Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow tags between co-developed-by and their sign-off

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Sun Oct 29 2023 - 05:35:42 EST


On 24/10/2023 11:15, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> On 10/23/23 16:02, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> +Mateusz
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>>> Additional tags between Co-developed-by and corresponding Signed-off-by
>>> could include Reviewed-by tags collected by Submitter, which is also
>>> a Co-developer, but should sign-off at the very end of tags provided by
>>> the Submitter.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Mateusz Polchlopek <mateusz.polchlopek@xxxxxxxxx> has reported this to me.
>>
>> Heh, there's a tag for that...
>>
>> Reported-by: Mateusz Polchlopek <mateusz.polchlopek@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> And it's usually a good idea to Cc the reporter in case there are questions they
>> can help answer.
>
> Heh ;) then I would get a checkpatch warning for not providing Link: to
> the report, somehow I wanted to avoid those for checkpatch contrib :)

You wanted Suggested-by. There is no bug here, so Reported-by is not
suitable.

Best regards,
Krzysztof