Commit 8ee25f6f authored Nov 16, 2017 by Greg Kroah-Hartman Committed by Jonathan Corbet Nov 20, 2017

Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors



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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst

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		@@ -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.