Providing a Helped-by tag fits well to indicate someone had helped with the development of a patch, to the level that still doesn't warrant providing a Co-developed-by tag, but is much more than it would've been indicated by providing a Suggested-by tag. The Helped-by tag been already used recently a few times in accepted patches. [1] With all this in mind, let's have Helped-by supported in checkpatch.pl. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=grep&q=Helped-by Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4427572b2477..b89e62e9c2dd 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi: Reviewed-by:| Reported-by:| Suggested-by:| + Helped-by:| To:| Cc: )};