From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [90.155.92.199]) (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 3F37E2163AB; Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.92.199 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738692327; cv=none; b=gqEUc8Oxqf3eiOzEoTeS+mBsZcS+eeSbQEu3SHt7QAlmEUvnGDv6anqMJgicdzISJcPcBZY+0yF6T44tEsd2Orz3xDGgwhs/VPaeeEOBannh4VVnA4P9NqjSiE7TfU1F9F+qA/3NdkzZxEeG4NU0crQLzIviknf8VVEWdQ1UvPk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738692327; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LoMZHVjyEpIFSHfyF7bxTUEmMGlompNah9BmRXMYefg=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=Oj/z5raicsWfxbaY8zgLx043LxyRlBxQDnKuX4pE03StNbb6XxYfLs28IwlKtJFtEt4V17Tqh7/8Ya1XT8BxqD/qaH8eXUlTO/ifsKQRCPw2NY/7MLmNpzkQZIM2ZckdFoodbwtlDJFxN6BNXV0+rLrqwx4ZwpUPsCtOee5M2Lc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=gjiD4vEi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.92.199 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="gjiD4vEi" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type :In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID: Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=qBX9m8ekS4Kp+9Wad1wgzoJlpD+MLcBX2hMNvd5DLw8=; b=gjiD4vEicC2JSdHKobROHP3h67 XCTSscvEfxX19ZRj5O8kZKOKXI+Gger13Aqvow/9ndTY5wZ5qNY1kDyN5JL2UuLbz1Hd3zDfBqMR0 2DgUFYDtRoAokYl4tuQ5aCIkTRFd80t4ViMM7Y0ijOxeFPnVFteHNKfpgKyOb/9x3ZB2V5RgaE8Fi evzf/6rixo8wtOdzjOTP1yThicPepna/4vnJ3477EXVKCUrO6JaGJwiRUhlvM6d/tk2Edt7S723zs ZyzASVqsF4rzmrX7e5a7xYBUW50G5MapiTGtVZVok27ZivCsGb/Kj7PFHegHxfUaRcyx9H/GdCVWA s7ursw3w==; Received: from [50.53.2.24] (helo=[192.168.254.17]) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1tfNIT-0000000GNBe-3Bwz; Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:05:18 +0000 Message-ID: <4f27a0db-256c-4792-a957-1387de9dc56e@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:05:12 -0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation To: Jakub Kicinski , Laurent Pinchart Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org> <20250204071834.78e0ffb1@kernel.org> <20250204154938.GF22963@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <20250204081301.6fdb1536@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20250204081301.6fdb1536@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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) >> 34 Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) > > 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 # 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