mailmap causing checkpatch warnings
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jan 5 09:46:40 CET 2023
04/01/2023 12:45, Konstantin Ananyev:
>
> >
> > 24/12/2022 12:05, Morten Brørup:
> > > Bruce, David,
> > >
> > > I just submitted a patch with an Acked-by from Konstantin, using his current (Huawei) email address, and it triggered the following
> > checkpatch warning:
> > > Konstantin Ananyev mail differs from primary mail, please fix the commit message or update .mailmap.
> >
> > Do you know how to accept all emails of .mailmap?
> >
> > > Some people have more than one active email address, so this checkpatch behavior is wrong.
> >
> > Konstantin, what is your main email address?
>
>
> I use both, but if that's a problem for one of our tools,
> I can stick with ACK-ing all patches using just one of them.
> Would that help?
Yes it would help in this case, but perhaps the tool should be fixed.
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