From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C09D25A65C; Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738604788; cv=none; b=fwTBGvRik+zeFkZC/gbSHuq8VNTpiDroZfN8vK4pj1lNQlnAbidQJMcUiMzJK88ca7KdBlDKmASqn9bT+j42m2ngx3Rprv8/VspPDKJCdPM9HJG72oxJkM9LV63XP4oY1MSXtgXmKcu+lSYgInOuM8HGXVeRmHPCB0MDbsfvgZU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738604788; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WgogWYyf8sjEHMTgsIKgfHiy5oLcV3jzWXMZvrx3hk0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=a90A4pc21maGVGuAVmDNQXWDbL9R0MZyiGa+NzEQPJQxphIjQN+zS78lDfez6bMpJ/xx2bET4XIPSorU8rkEXXzAu74n6BF1y/8M36xACbdIOeGhCF+zKnaYMwj9RFUQoPaLFX8a9qLKNkawloaX1HNyDpYZEfbwKd57TdelfsY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=hPss2DeD; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="hPss2DeD" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CAA6AC4CEE2; Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:46:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1738604788; bh=WgogWYyf8sjEHMTgsIKgfHiy5oLcV3jzWXMZvrx3hk0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=hPss2DeDw1c7gdNABQnrGwcg9kocyuk4oQ31MGzIfGZ6YRw6zAhE91Wd9ruNydx5v C+oFayt3aYfs7ajpftuo7HWGuwrGErBFSxhaWzhhAn686oYOfENoGveFT8pGahJLiR /hjyNo6yHTZgHOUEU/etDf/NjGqpV2ooaLBwzQtM9eVSLtmn88G7AJtmo9HBsQ+6Dj Y4K0e0GcGHuxX6WndPTnz74w72O0N7FAZBsHmcaVkWoNUGTfMQG9Bh7oL7SHMwOage f2WIIOkerUbJY0+yPvuCjoP22TAOlg8/fL/YNivbhX0+DQT/PCivCY6rqeA7cnSQZF 1vZUHYETsxUWg== From: Jakub Kicinski To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: Jakub Kicinski , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:46:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.48.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Adding company name in round brackets to From/SoB lines is fairly common, but I don't see it documented anywhere. Every now and then people try to add the sponsorship lines to the commit message, fun example from this merge window: Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation from commit 2ce67f8bf1ce ("wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix iwl_ssid_exist() check"). Better format would be: Author: Miri Korenblit (FreeBSD Foundation) <... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- CC: corbet@lwn.net CC: workflows@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index 8fdc0ef3e604..12ed28b3d113 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -717,6 +717,12 @@ patch in the permanent changelog. If the ``from`` line is missing, then the ``From:`` line from the email header will be used to determine the patch author in the changelog. +The author may indicate their affiliation or the sponsor of the work +by adding the name of an organization to the ``from`` and ``SoB`` lines, +e.g.: + + From: Patch Author (Company) + Explanation Body ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- 2.48.1