On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:23:48AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> Just adding one data point here, without judging on the merits of this >> proposal. I've been requested previously by customers to increase their >> visibility in the kernel development statistics, and the way we found to >> do so was to sign-off patches with >> >> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+customer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> (where "customer" is to be replaced with the customer name). > > I quite like Sponsored-by: but yet another approach could be the > same as that used by those of us whole use personal email addresses > while being employed by someone. So my SoB is: > > Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > but you might have (eg) > > Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > and then when working for another sponsor: > > Laurent Pinchard (Ford) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Just an observation, git shortlog -s/-se groups/distinguishes, respectively, the author and sponsor in Laurent's approach. Not so with Matthew's approach. Probably depends on the POV which approach this favors. ;) BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
