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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 360ae4b84ee3..f40a81f24d43 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2679,6 +2679,10 @@ sub process {
# Check the patch for a From:
if (decode("MIME-Header", $line) =~ /^From:\s*(.*)/) {
$author = $1;
+ my $curline = $linenr;
+ while(defined($rawlines[$curline]) && ($rawlines[$curline++] =~ /^[ \t]\s*(.*)/)) {
+ $author .= $1;
+ }
$author = encode("utf8", $author) if ($line =~ /=\?utf-8\?/i);
$author =~ s/"//g;
$author = reformat_email($author);