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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -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); |