Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:29:17 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch | From | Giulio Benetti <> |
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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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