The patch titled Subject: docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is docs-fix-co-developed-by-docs.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/docs-fix-co-developed-by-docs.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/docs-fix-co-developed-by-docs.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs The accepted terminology will be Co-developed-by therefore lose the capital letter from now on. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544808928-20002-2-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst~docs-fix-co-developed-by-docs +++ a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ tracking your trees, and to people tryin tree. -12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-Developed-by: +12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-developed-by: ------------------------------------------------------- The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ person it names - but it should indicate patch. This tag documents that potentially interested parties have been included in the discussion. -A Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer +A Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple people work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to have a Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx are docs-fix-co-developed-by-docs.patch checkpatch-add-co-developed-by-to-signature-tags.patch