From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A7EC3DA6F for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 23:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238728AbjHWX3v (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:29:51 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40990 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238685AbjHWX3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:29:22 -0400 Received: from smtpcmd12132.aruba.it (smtpcmd12132.aruba.it [62.149.156.132]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2370310C7 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.50.162] ([146.241.122.243]) by Aruba Outgoing Smtp with ESMTPSA id YxHpqkyttgpIyYxHpqItFH; Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:29:18 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aruba.it; s=a1; t=1692833358; bh=Djb+ydYILif3vT93OqYp68/ll5P3PBwrXaYX2I8egtU=; h=Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:From:Content-Type; b=BZKvsYkKrnZW3W/n3AnAF9s8sGbzgrd0UyKTNL8YFzLNsvraRFrDcwHwkldKivP10 pCnLZABiMuiEqU2K080RCnmMwotlIN7aLnC33irTwQZ3CtwDIHjkJhxiejCJVQCSDo 5RqW6hYIFzibfbdgmBQSjGr3S2W7O64DEe2DfFcjHcP4QhYpzSST3tuSwA+MW87nJU zU5c95PYwX/BxL+o0G/YLyeBPo3vbVnd6pOZYtXmygHhjNKgQhBH52TSoVi+YPEc8t hcYCuuj6m/3vpP64+3jpGhqi2jjn8TndzowatakJokkcpHt01zALjA2g1dS61rXgrM O3YSoT7h6jRXg== Message-ID: <729df0fd-45a5-53d9-e2c1-e76b0e3ef10e@benettiengineering.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:29:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.14.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch Content-Language: en-US To: Matthew Wilcox , Laurent Pinchart Cc: Jonathan Corbet , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> <20230817220957.41582-2-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> <20230817232348.GC1175@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> From: Giulio Benetti In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfEh0E2t4uzbuURzqWhLE6FKBUNyZedG5b95a61IQ26l7DEEkRD6xjvfOndAOByDL087hxgN1xoPmPHzKMJfvfOfUgl6MFM7MlB4M4zWRRd0ykeML1UNw ZA08lL6RFc66Ug0te6ABUT7tTKcpOVmTNTJqmjg3Za92JMCGJ3b7IFqAO8d2woFfzegl5ttLZM5A5OXol82sToEaC9JqoI3F9Oqpp5hZeWHq20/uLV59YRai TqNBDuxx3mFs6ReerR9s7YVHBmynZ8iB4WmgjO5uRG0IpOkgp9Nq1LpDB7p1HlS9q6ujuLXpCBFLitMCJPiFAj90/fQVbwYzYvWScYNPC55rBF9Pk7CjZCkp CtXQgB2vjVHmLxYvzGync5wHXdv2hRo7F8OutZE3nXv/tUuFfMyb20lJZ5Ka3VFGcpF0mldM Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >> >> (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) > > but you might have (eg) > > Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) > > and then when working for another sponsor: > > Laurent Pinchard (Ford) > 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