Hi Dave, On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 09:21:03 +1100 Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The commit matches exactly what was sent to the list. It's just > that the patch was sent from a personal email address with a > corporate signoff. > > Since when has that been an issue? I -personally- have been doing > this for well over a decade and I'm pretty sure there are lots of > other people who also do this. If you are happy (as the maintainer), then fine. My script just could not connect those 2 email addresses. I check for matches between the address itself (the part between the <>) or a match between the "name" part (before the <>). If either matches (or it is obvious) then I don't report it. I have reported very few of these. > Hence if this is wrong, then we've got a tooling problem with b4. > Why does b4 allow this rather than warn/fail if it's not actually > allowed in the linux-next tree? These reports are more of "is this right/was this a slipup?" rather than "this is not allowed" i.e.. there are circumstances under which the actual author does not (or cannot) provide a Signed-off-by and that is OK. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
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