Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 17:49:38 +0200 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Or apparently project or customer names for consulting companies:
> 
>      29 Kory Maincent (Dent Project) <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
>      34 Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>

FWIW these are customer names, indeed. Project/Foundation pays for
contracting work in both cases.

> The other cases correctly refer to companeis, for contributors using
> other email addresses:
> 
>       14 linux.dev
>       41 zytor.com
>       47 joelfernandes.org
>      176 alien8.de
>      243 gmail.com
>      333 goodmis.org
>      454 armlinux.org.uk
>      918 infradead.org
>     1007 kernel.org
> 
> Do we want to only document existing practices, or also tell which
> one(s) should be favoured ?

I'm hoping that documenting the most prevalent existing practice
will naturally make it favored. IOW I'd prefer to document just 
one option. I don't really care which one we pick, but the brackets
seem most common.