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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch
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Hello Matthew, Laurent, All,

On 18/08/23 02:21, Matthew Wilcox 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@ideasonboard.com>
>>
>> (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@infradead.org>
>
> but you might have (eg)
>
> Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
>
> and then when working for another sponsor:
>
> Laurent Pinchard (Ford) <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
>

Thanks a lot for pointing me the existing ways to give credits I was not
aware. I will pick one of the 2 and use it.

Both can be used by analysis tools.

Thanks again for taking care.
Best regards
--
Giulio Benetti
CEO&CTO@Benetti Engineering sas

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