Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] trailer: clarify failure modes in parse_trailer

> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
>
>> If we do that, there is also the necessity of creating a string that
>> combines the separators and '=' (I guess '\n' is not necessary now,
>> since all the lines are null terminated). I'm OK either way.
>>
>> (We could cache that string, although I would think that if we did
>> that, we might as well write the loop manually, like in this patch.)
>
> I wonder if there is a legit reason to look for '=' in the first
> place.  "Signed-off-by= Jonathan Tan <jt@my.home>" does not look
> like a valid trailer line to me.
>
> Isn't that a remnant of lazy coding in the original that tried to
> share a single parser for contents and command line options or
> something?