checkpatch: test for non-standard signatures

Warn on non-standard signature styles.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2012-07-30 14:41:18 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b34a26f315
commit ce0338df3c
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -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);