linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch

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Message-ID: <0a2c9daf-c301-8683-9af5-c64ce5d516ca@benettiengineering.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:24:43 +0200
From:   Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@...ettiengineering.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to
 give credits to who sponsored the patch

Hello Jacub, All,

On 21/08/23 16:57, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:40:59 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Personally, I would respond "I'm sorry, but the only advertising
>> space we offer are Copyright headers (for employees) and
>> "user+customer@..." or "name (customer) user@..." (for contractors).
> 
> +1
> 
>> And this is a separate tag, so it's harder for the analysis tools
>> (whose output your customers must be interested in, too?) to
>> match the tag to the actual Author/Reviewer/...
> 
> I think that's a key point. Having a separate tag denote the sponsor
> would make analysis a lot harder. We'd need to start writing parsers
> with much more context awareness.

yes. There are already 2 ways to give credits I was not aware and I
will go with one of those.

Thank you for replying
Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
CEO&CTO@...etti Engineering sas