Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Validate committer sign-off

On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 20:24 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

On 27/07/2026 19:59, Bjorn Andersson wrote:

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checkpatch validates the Signed-off-by trailers against the patch's
author, but misses the opportunity to also validate the committer when
run with --git. Maintainers therefor need third-party scripts for the
final Signed-off-by check.

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The issue Bjorn is trying to solve is real and as he pointed out - every
second day maintainers fail to commit properly (srsly... still!). Some
of us implemented git commit hooks [1][2], but many still don't care
enough, even though installing such commit hook is basically 30 seconds.

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Maybe checkpatch would help people to get it right...

Alright, I'll look at this proposal more thoroughly.