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=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 DC100C43215 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF7620733 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726985AbfKOVdR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:33:17 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0038.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.38]:33454 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726598AbfKOVdR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:33:17 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F14180220B5; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:33:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: blade42_5685b2467e420 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2369 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.135.224]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:33:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist Originally-by: signature From: Joe Perches To: Jonathan Corbet , Eugeniu Rosca Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eugeniu Rosca , Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:32:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20191115092943.7c79f81e@lwn.net> References: <20191115150202.15208-1-erosca@de.adit-jv.com> <05ba4e29fb78885cf9abf7bfc87e0a7bcda099fe.camel@perches.com> <20191115154627.GA2187@lxhi-065.adit-jv.com> <20191115092943.7c79f81e@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 09:29 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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. I am also not a proponent of adding this as a new tag/signature.