[PATCH 00/11] Introduce support for RISC-V architecture

[Morten Brørup]

> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> 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
> <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> > 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