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[209.85.221.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a1e0cc1a2514c-86694051da6sm2065145241.2.2025.02.04.11.43.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-vk1-f177.google.com with SMTP id 71dfb90a1353d-5174db4e34eso82988e0c.0; Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:43:35 -0800 (PST) X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCUQRN0n2EhSFwdwwsopDgNn9lBCdbzIAYdLx/+cUjuFYbv3eYA0RNAgUljmLitw3NdpBeOBdv14pV4=@vger.kernel.org, AJvYcCW8wDPX6KhaTSq0HARKBpMvJrB9z7D78KzEXRM4u6mN8XW1gH5DsYgGWxDgC5WDAH1Io7d3Y72ik4el@vger.kernel.org X-Received: by 2002:a05:6122:8c6:b0:515:20e6:7861 with SMTP id 71dfb90a1353d-51ef966291bmr4339315e0c.2.1738698215588; Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:43:35 -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> <20250204071834.78e0ffb1@kernel.org> <20250204154938.GF22963@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <20250204081301.6fdb1536@kernel.org> <4f27a0db-256c-4792-a957-1387de9dc56e@infradead.org> <20250204113342.3b8f18f8@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20250204113342.3b8f18f8@kernel.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:43:23 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AWEUYZmtAOFNZUqPOTlDAyK-qsDVDBlykgJF0ULWd28E7Bz0N_QrIYAk0HGOfy4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Randy Dunlap , Laurent Pinchart , corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Jakub, On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 20:33, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:05:12 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Signed-off-by: John Doe # Company > > Interesting :) > > On a quick look this seems to be the format of choice for maintainers > who edit patches: > > Signed-off-by: Mr Maintainer # 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 > to be machine readable (for development statistics). Agreed. 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