Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist Originally-by: signature

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:46:27 +0100
Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Thanks,

jon