> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 9 May 2022 14.31 > > 09/05/2022 14:24, Stanisław Kardach: > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 11:13 AM David Marchand > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > About the new "Sponsored-by" tag, it should not raise warnings in > the > > > CI if we agree on its addition. > > > > > I'll modify it in V2 to be in form of: > > Sponsored by: StarFive Technology > > You mean removing the hyphen? > I think it is better to keep it so all tags have the same format.
I agree with Thomas. Please keep the hyphen. > > > ... > > Signed-off-by: ... > > > > This was suggested by Stephen Hemminger as having a precedent in > Linux > > kernel. Interestingly enough first use of this tag in kernel source > was > > this year in January. I don't get it! Should employees start adding Sponsored-by: <Employer name> to their commits, when doing it as part of their job? And how about contract developers, should they also add a Sponsored-by: <Company name> tag, since they are working under contract and getting paid by that company? Can someone please provide a reference to the discussion about this on the LKML? I'm curious why they felt the need for such a tag. > > The precedent is not strong enough to be copied in my opinion. I agree. Also, if it is an acceptable signature tag, the checkpatch.pl script should be updated: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc6/source/scripts/checkpatch.pl#L607
