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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: ad5933: add binding doc for ad5933
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>,
        Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>,
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On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 00:20 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 02:57:12PM -0200, Marcelo Schmitt wrote:
> > Add a devicetree documentation for the ad5933 and ad5934 impedance
> > converter, network analyzer.
> > 
> > Co-Developed-by: Gabriel Capella <gabriel@capella.pro>
> 
> checkpatch spits out:
> 
> WARNING: Non-standard signature: Co-Developed-by:
> 
> Co-developed-by Vs Co-Developed-by ?
> 
> Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst: - Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-Developed-by:
> 
> Confusing! Don't know which one is correct.

I think neither one.

What's the real purpose or value of it?
There isn't one as far as I can tell.

Just use Signed-off-by:

Or maybe add multiple "Authored-by:" if
anyone is all that concerned about authorship
crediting...


> 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Capella <gabriel@capella.pro>
> > ---
> 
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