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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: add Co-Developed-by docs
Date: Mon,  5 Mar 2018 14:58:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1520222301-11874-3-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520222301-11874-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>

When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to
Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to
Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst

Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
---

The text in this patch is copied basically verbatim from
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst 

 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 1ef19d3a3eee..698360641ecd 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -510,8 +510,8 @@ tracking your trees, and to people trying to troubleshoot bugs in your
 tree.
 
 
-12) When to use Acked-by: and Cc:
----------------------------------
+12) When to use Acked-by: and Cc:, and Co-Developed-by:
+-------------------------------------------------------
 
 The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
 development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.
@@ -543,6 +543,11 @@ person it names - but it should indicate that this person was copied on the
 patch.  This tag documents that potentially interested parties
 have been included in the discussion.
 
+A Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
+along with the original author.  This is useful at times when multiple people
+work on a single patch.  Note, this person also needs to have a Signed-off-by:
+line in the patch as well.
+
 
 13) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-05  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-05  3:58 Tobin C. Harding
2018-03-05  3:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: add check for tag Co-Developed-by Tobin C. Harding
2018-03-05 19:29   ` Joe Perches
2018-03-05  3:58 ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2018-03-05 12:11   ` [PATCH 2/2] docs: add Co-Developed-by docs Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-05 21:24     ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-03-07 17:16   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-03-07 18:07     ` Dominik Brodowski

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