checkpatch: make email address check case insensitive

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / scripts / checkpatch.pl

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a65753c..161ce7f 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2909,10 +2909,10 @@ sub process {
                                        my ($email_name, $email_comment, $email_address, $comment1) = parse_email($ctx);
                                        my ($author_name, $author_comment, $author_address, $comment2) = parse_email($author);
 
-                                       if ($email_address eq $author_address && $email_name eq $author_name) {
+                                       if (lc $email_address eq lc $author_address && $email_name eq $author_name) {
                                                $author_sob = $ctx;
                                                $authorsignoff = 2;
-                                       } elsif ($email_address eq $author_address) {
+                                       } elsif (lc $email_address eq lc $author_address) {
                                                $author_sob = $ctx;
                                                $authorsignoff = 3;
                                        } elsif ($email_name eq $author_name) {