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Commit bbb0a424 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet
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Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches 



Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the
others in SubmittingPatches.

Reported-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 9fa7eb28

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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@@ -405,7 +405,14 @@ person it names. This tag documents that potentially interested parties 
have been included in the discussion





14) Using Tested-by: and Reviewed-by:

14) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by: and Reviewed-by:



If this patch fixes a problem reported by somebody else, consider adding a

Reported-by: tag to credit the reporter for their contribution.  Please

note that this tag should not be added without the reporter's permission,

especially if the problem was not reported in a public forum.  That said,

if we diligently credit our bug reporters, they will, hopefully, be

inspired to help us again in the future.



A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in

some environment) by the person named.  This tag informs maintainers that