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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F976C432C3 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055772072D for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727751AbfKOQ3s (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:29:48 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:43402 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727721AbfKOQ3q (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:29:46 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E9582D8; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:29:43 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Eugeniu Rosca Cc: Joe Perches , Andy Whitcroft , , Eugeniu Rosca , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist Originally-by: signature Message-ID: <20191115092943.7c79f81e@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20191115154627.GA2187@lxhi-065.adit-jv.com> References: <20191115150202.15208-1-erosca@de.adit-jv.com> <05ba4e29fb78885cf9abf7bfc87e0a7bcda099fe.camel@perches.com> <20191115154627.GA2187@lxhi-065.adit-jv.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.4 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:46:27 +0100 Eugeniu Rosca wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:09:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 16:02 +0100, Eugeniu Rosca wrote: > > > Oftentimes [1], the contributor would like to honor or give credits [2] > > > to somebody's original ideas in the submission/reviewing process. While > > > "Co-developed-by:" and "Suggested-by:" (currently whitelisted) could be > > > employed for this purpose, they are not ideal. > > > > You need to get the use of this accepted into Documentation/process > > before adding it to checkpatch > > If the change [*] makes sense to you, I can submit an update to > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst So there appear to be 89 patches with Originally-by in the entire Git history, which isn't a a lot; there are 3x as many Co-developed-by tags, which still isn't a huge number. I do wonder if it's worth recognizing yet another tag with a subtly different shade of meaning here? My own opinion doesn't matter a lot, but I'd like to have a sense that there is wider acceptance of this tag before adding it to the docs. Thanks, jon