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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: improve email parsing
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    On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 11:28 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
    > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:18 AM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > checkpatch doesn't report warnings for many common mistakes
    > > in emails. Some of which are trailing commas and incorrect
    > > use of email comments.
    > >
    > > At the same time several false positives are reported due to
    > > incorrect handling of mail comments. The most common of which
    > > is due to the pattern:
    > >
    > > <stable@vger.kernel.org> # X.X
    > >
    > > Improve email parsing mechanism in checkpatch.
    > >
    > > What is added:
    > >
    > > - Support for multiple name/address comments.
    > > - Improved handling of quoted names.
    > > - Sanitize improperly formatted comments.
    > > - Sanitize trailing semicolon or dot after email.
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    > What do you think? Should warnings for the names which should
    > be quoted be reported considering this result?

    Clearly the quote suggestion is unnecessary.

    I think that "cc: stable@(?:vger\.)?kernel\.org" should be
    treated differently from other forms of invalid/odd address lines.

    My suggestion is that the case insensitive form of

    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

    or only another similar case insensitive forms with a
    # comment separator like

    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # some comment

    be acceptable for stable.

    All other forms with stable@ should emit some message.

    And other <foo>-by: and cc: addresses should only have a form like

    Signed-off-by: "Full.Name" (possible comment) <email@domain.tld>
    or
    Signed-off-by: Full Name (possible comment) <email@domain.tld>

    etc..

    and any additional content after .tld in the email address be flagged
    with some message like "unexpected content after email address" rather
    than "might be better as".

    What do you think best?

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