From ce0338df3c9a43e709b8a478265b32b9edcc7ccc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:41:18 -0700 Subject: checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures Warn on non-standard signature styles. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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); -- cgit v1.2.3