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 <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
CC: corbet@xxxxxxx
CC: workflows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 8fdc0ef3e604..12ed28b3d113 100644
--- 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) <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+
Explanation Body
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
2.48.1
