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Message-ID: <729df0fd-45a5-53d9-e2c1-e76b0e3ef10e@benettiengineering.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:29:17 +0200
From:   Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@...ettiengineering.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     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 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@...asonboard.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@...radead.org>
> 
> but you might have (eg)
> 
> Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
> 
> and then when working for another sponsor:
> 
> Laurent Pinchard (Ford) <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.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@...etti Engineering sas

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