Hi Jakub,
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 18:46, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
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) <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +
You probably also want to document the other popular[*] solution:
From: Patch Author <author+company@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[*] Statistics for v6.0..v6.14-rc1:
- "(Company): 3430
- "+company": 2871
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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