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| author |   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-02-03 09:46:25 -0800 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2025-02-10 11:35:11 -0700 |
| commit | 95767a592dc997eab17a4f58fcb16abff2101ba3 (patch) | |
| tree | 25cde1a4e2a8c923eb0892d520a08672f699ad5a | |
| parent | Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-mw (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-linux-95767a592dc997eab17a4f58fcb16abff2101ba3.tar.xz wireguard-linux-95767a592dc997eab17a4f58fcb16abff2101ba3.zip | |
docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation
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@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
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@example.com> + Explanation Body ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |