docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:46:25 +0000 (09:46 -0800)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:35:11 +0000 (11:35 -0700)
commit95767a592dc997eab17a4f58fcb16abff2101ba3
tree25cde1a4e2a8c923eb0892d520a08672f699ad5a
parent1ce8294cfefb968aabefbf888d0a66af624622e8
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
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst