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[209.85.217.54]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ada2fe7eead31-4b9baccb66bsm1862368137.20.2025.02.03.23.59.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-vs1-f54.google.com with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-4affd0fb6adso1708138137.1; Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:59:40 -0800 (PST) X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCVz7nlhTtkitIjCsffYZCoetHzf7IxzcmSKnmIdd0F5Eub8Lw1LT6mUI52ef6vlt4YdMQ4181ZCVCI=@vger.kernel.org, AJvYcCWvUgbQB/N1kAMYUMeMrtiyPzvRMM8IpuxHSxKAnAls9CM4q/divQunE7InjSf9nqD47PZlcCW9B6qy@vger.kernel.org X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:3e15:b0:4b2:5c2a:cc9d with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-4b9a5230b82mr19139572137.16.1738655980520; Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:59:40 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:59:28 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AWEUYZktvGKQzKXDfyoMEtemz2PtqJdRX60VTsjDpLFC8EJTKDZMqnYWQSoIzIY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Jakub, On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 18:46, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > 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 Thanks for your patch! > --- 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) > + You probably also want to document the other popular[*] solution: From: Patch Author [*] Statistics for v6.0..v6.14-rc1: - "(Company): 3430 - "+company": 2871 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds