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

[Eric Blake]

On 08/23/2018 05:25 AM, 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(+)

Adding it here will let patchew flag such message; the workaround is for 
the submitter to resubmit with an explicit 'From: User Name 
<address@hidden>' line in the body of the email.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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