Hi Jakub, On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 20:33, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:05:12 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Signed-off-by: John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> # 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> # 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > to be machine readable (for development statistics). Agreed. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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