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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which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a
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proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
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- Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
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along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple
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people work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to have a
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Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well.
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- Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a
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maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for
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inclusion into the kernel.
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