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

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Jakub,

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 20:33, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:05:12 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: John Doe <jdoe@example.com> # Company
>
> Interesting :)
>
> On a quick look this seems to be the format of choice for maintainers
> who edit patches:
>
> Signed-off-by: Mr Maintainer <jdoe@example.com> # fixed xyz
>
> I don't see a single # use in the From lines. I think the # formatting

Because email does not support doing that?

> is well suited for free form comments. Less so for things which may need

On, Acked/Reviewed-by-tags, it's indeed used mostly for comments.
For editing patches, there exists another notation:

    [jane: fixed xyz]
    Signed-off-by: Jane Maintainer <jdoe@example.com>

> to be machine readable (for development statistics).

Agreed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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