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docs: submitting-patches: document the format for affiliation

Adding company name in round brackets to From/SoB lines
is fairly common, but I don't see it documented anywhere.
Every now and then people try to add the sponsorship lines
to the commit message, fun example from this merge window:

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

from commit 2ce67f8bf1ce ("wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix iwl_ssid_exist()
check"). Better format would be:

Author: Miri Korenblit (FreeBSD Foundation) <...

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203174626.1131225-1-kuba@kernel.org

authored by

Jakub Kicinski and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 95767a59 1ce8294c

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Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
··· 717 717 then the ``From:`` line from the email header will be used to determine 718 718 the patch author in the changelog. 719 719 720 + The author may indicate their affiliation or the sponsor of the work 721 + by adding the name of an organization to the ``from`` and ``SoB`` lines, 722 + e.g.: 723 + 724 + From: Patch Author (Company) <author@example.com> 725 + 720 726 Explanation Body 721 727 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 722 728