On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 07:28:37AM -0700, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:56:00 +0200, Bjorn Andersson
> > 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. > I too would like to see this applied. The alternative is to get emails from > linux-next maintainers after a bad commit is already published, which requires > rebasing of maintainers' trees. FWIW the substantial majority of signoff problems I see are due to rebases in multi-maintainer trees, that's partly due to a few frequent fliers.
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