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

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

Hi,

On 2/4/25 8:13 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 17:49:38 +0200 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> Or apparently project or customer names for consulting companies:
>>
>>      29 Kory Maincent (Dent Project) <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
>>      34 Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
> 
> FWIW these are customer names, indeed. Project/Foundation pays for
> contracting work in both cases.
> 
>> The other cases correctly refer to companeis, for contributors using
>> other email addresses:
>>
>>       14 linux.dev
>>       41 zytor.com
>>       47 joelfernandes.org
>>      176 alien8.de
>>      243 gmail.com
>>      333 goodmis.org
>>      454 armlinux.org.uk
>>      918 infradead.org
>>     1007 kernel.org
>>
>> Do we want to only document existing practices, or also tell which
>> one(s) should be favoured ?
> 
> I'm hoping that documenting the most prevalent existing practice
> will naturally make it favored. IOW I'd prefer to document just 
> one option. I don't really care which one we pick, but the brackets
> seem most common.
> 

I thought that
Signed-off-by: John Doe <jdoe@example.com> # Company
would be acceptable also.

It looks like that format is documented for Acked-by: but I don't know
why it is not more generally applicable. I'm pretty sure that I have used it
a few times. ;)

-- 
~Randy