Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: report on author emails that are mangled by the mailing list

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

Copying Paolo, since this probably falls under the "misc patches"
maintainer bucket.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:25:02AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the
> list gets mangled such that it says
> 
>     John Doe via Qemu-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> This change is a result of workarounds for DMARC policies.
> 
> Subsystem maintainers accepting patches need to catch these and fix
> them before sending pull requests, so a checkpatch.pl test is highly
> desirable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 42e1c50dd8..be2114a179 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1402,6 +1402,10 @@ sub process {
>                       $is_patch = 1;
>               }
>  
> +             if ($line =~ /^Author: .*via Qemu-devel.*<address@hidden>/) {
> +                 ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing 
> list\n" . $herecurr);
> +             }
> +
>  #check the patch for a signoff:
>               if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) {
>                       # This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report.
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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