Currently checkpatch warns for BAD_SIGN_OFF on non-standard signature
styles.
A large number of these warnings occur because of typo mistakes in
signature tags. An evaluation over v4.13..v5.8 showed that out of 539
warnings due to non-standard signatures, 87 are due to typo mistakes.
Following are the standard signature tags which are often incorrectly
used, along with their individual counts of incorrect use (over
v4.13..v5.8):
Reviewed-by: 42
Signed-off-by: 25
Reported-by: 6
Acked-by: 4
Tested-by: 4
Suggested-by: 4
Provide a fix by calculating levenshtein distance for the signature tag
with all the standard signatures and suggest a fix with a signature, whose
edit distance is less than or equal to 2 with the misspelled signature.
Out of the 86 mispelled signatures fixed with this approach, 85 were found
to be good corrections and 1 was bad correction.
Following was found to be a bad correction:
Tweeted-by (count: 1) => Tested-by
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201128204333.7054-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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