Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:59:28 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> You probably also want to document the other popular[*] solution:
> 
>     From: Patch Author <author+company@example.com>
> 
> [*] Statistics for v6.0..v6.14-rc1:
>       - "(Company): 3430
>       - "+company": 2871

Hm, I mostly associate that format with MAINTAINERS entries where
people want email classification. But you're right there are some 
uses, only 3 of them look like companies, tho.

$ git log --format='%ae' v6.0..v6.14-rc1 | grep '+' | sed -e 's/.*+\(.*\)@.*/\1/' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{if ($1 > 5) print;}'
     18 huawei
    464 kernel
     46 lin
    742 linaro
      8 publicgit
   1646 renesas

$ git log --format='%an' v6.0..v6.14-rc1 | sed -n 's/.*(\(.*\))/\1/p' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{if ($1 > 5) print;}'
    177 AMD
    210 Arm
     29 Dent Project
     37 eBPF Foundation
    547 Google
     13 Hanghong Ma
    132 IBM
     46 Intel
     38 Microsoft
     18 Ming Qiang Wu
    155 NGI0
     26 NXP OSS
   1487 Oracle
     19 OSS
      7 Som
     70 Sony
    353 SUSE
      9 tencent
     24 VMware
      8 辛安文