Hi Jakub,
On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 20:33, Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:05:12 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: John Doe <[email protected]> # Company
>
> Interesting :)
>
> On a quick look this seems to be the format of choice for maintainers
> who edit patches:
>
> Signed-off-by: Mr Maintainer <[email protected]> # fixed xyz
>
> I don't see a single # use in the From lines. I think the # formatting
Because email does not support doing that?
> is well suited for free form comments. Less so for things which may need
On, Acked/Reviewed-by-tags, it's indeed used mostly for comments.
For editing patches, there exists another notation:
[jane: fixed xyz]
Signed-off-by: Jane Maintainer <[email protected]>
> to be machine readable (for development statistics).
Agreed.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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