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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-23 21:01:32 -1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-23 21:01:32 -1000
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Merge tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait.

  There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build
  enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build
  (but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)"

* tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments
  Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt
  documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file
  kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example
  kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive"
  Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
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@@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The tags in common use are:
    which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.  Code without a
    proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
 
+ - Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
+   along with the original author.  This is useful at times when multiple
+   people work on a single patch.  Note, this person also needs to have a
+   Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well.
+
  - Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a
    maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for
    inclusion into the kernel.