From 95767a592dc997eab17a4f58fcb16abff2101ba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:46:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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) + Explanation Body ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- 2.25.1