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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2012-07-30 14:41:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-30 17:25:17 -0700 |
| commit | ce0338df3c9a43e709b8a478265b32b9edcc7ccc (patch) | |
| tree | 7f6c7047b4e1215f11ce2f774091237c7b5fdeb8 /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | b34a26f3158cca932b6f1427b97fe12c7838ee68 (diff) | |
checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures
Warn on non-standard signature styles.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 630319acb826..3e04f80375de 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1600,13 +1600,17 @@ sub process { # Check signature styles if (!$in_header_lines && - $line =~ /^(\s*)($signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/) { + $line =~ /^(\s*)([a-z0-9_-]+by:|$signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/i) { my $space_before = $1; my $sign_off = $2; my $space_after = $3; my $email = $4; my $ucfirst_sign_off = ucfirst(lc($sign_off)); + if ($sign_off !~ /$signature_tags/) { + WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", + "Non-standard signature: $sign_off\n" . $herecurr); + } if (defined $space_before && $space_before ne "") { WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", "Do not use whitespace before $ucfirst_sign_off\n" . $herecurr); |