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docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation

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Adding company name in round brackets to From/SoB lines
is fairly common, but I don't see it documented anywhere.
Every now and then people try to add the sponsorship lines
to the commit message, fun example from this merge window:

  Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation

from commit 2ce67f8bf1 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix iwl_ssid_exist()
check"). Better format would be:

  Author: Miri Korenblit (FreeBSD Foundation) <...

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org
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Jakub Kicinski
2025-02-03 09:46:25 -08:00
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@@ -717,6 +717,12 @@ patch in the permanent changelog. If the ``from`` line is missing,
then the ``From:`` line from the email header will be used to determine
the patch author in the changelog.
The author may indicate their affiliation or the sponsor of the work
by adding the name of an organization to the ``from`` and ``SoB`` lines,
e.g.:
From: Patch Author (Company) <author@example.com>
Explanation Body
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^