Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756568Ab1EWQjZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 12:39:25 -0400 Received: from oproxy4-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.11]:60627 "HELO oproxy4-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756546Ab1EWQjX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 12:39:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=xenotime.net; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:Organization:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=KT5m7CsqEv2Abw+jcUxQygdDfRIXnpslIJsWc0VvtzMKTLHA4dZc7PXpyUfJCQhWKZqu7ti9T/4fzu0gVWxHWniHW5sZtoCc5ZYCMMFrQtWrYEr8eW1be1J3MgKK9891; Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:39:20 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Joe Perches Cc: anish singh , davej@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, apw@shadowen.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vapier@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, man.k1983@gmail.com Subject: Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification Message-Id: <20110523093920.8f1e5cd0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1306168598.8687.27.camel@Joe-Laptop> References: <1306006721.1622.18.camel@anish-desktop> <1306059528.2761.3.camel@anish-desktop> <1306164094.2292.25.camel@anish-desktop> <1306167105.8687.11.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1306168598.8687.27.camel@Joe-Laptop> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 25 On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:36:38 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:03 +0530, anish singh wrote: > > \s[a-zA-Z]* => this is a regular expression for name & space b/w > > Last/First name > > Ex: anish kumar > > .* => It is used to grep whatever follows name...in our context > > mail-id > > Ex: abc@bbc.com. > > So, $1 will contain ...'anish kumar ' > > Unless the email contains a quote or a period like: > > Signed-off-by: "J. Random Contributor" and quotes are not required (i.e., are optional) AFAIK. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/