Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH -mmots] checkpatch: add fix for non-standard signature - co-authored-by | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:31:11 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 20:25 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:00:58PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:56 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:59:54AM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:59 AM Aditya <yashsri421@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 3/12/20 12:26 am, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 00:00 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote: > > > > > > > Currently, checkpatch.pl warns us for BAD_SIGN_OFF on the usage of > > > > > > > non-standard signatures. [] > > > co-developed-by is the correct tag for this. It is documented exactly > > > for this reason, please do not try to use something that is not already > > > accepted by the kernel developers for this type of thing.
Postel's law should apply here.
And there is a concurrent thread on the ksummit-discuss mailing list that applies:
https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit-discuss/CAFhKne9ZSbwrH6-g7og2BBEEDGd6ScDnZTNg3znQLvLDCDfeoA@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
I hope all this becomes moot eventually.
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