From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754370AbdKQK0h (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:26:37 -0500 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:49944 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbdKQK0X (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:26:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:26:09 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Greg Kroah-Hartman cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors In-Reply-To: <20171116132309.GA8449@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20171116132309.GA8449@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only > can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give > credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document > the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of > the patch. > > Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it > is their work that is being submitted here. > > Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst > index 1b7728b19ea7..645fa9c7388a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst > @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The tags in common use are: > which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a > proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline. > > + - 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. > + > - Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a > maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for > inclusion into the kernel. >