The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-test-for-non-standard-signatures.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures Warn on non-standard signature styles. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-test-for-non-standard-signatures scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-test-for-non-standard-signatures +++ a/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); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch dynamic_debug-restore-dev_dbg-netdev_dbg-functionality-reduce-stack-use.patch dynamic_debug-restore-dev_dbg-netdev_dbg-functionality-reduce-stack-use-v2.patch linux-next.patch thermal-add-renesas-r-car-thermal-sensor-support.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html