Hi Steven,

čt 4. 6. 2026 v 1:19 odesílatel Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] napsal:

Hi Gabriele,

What is this? All commits need to be authored by and signed off by from
a real person with their official name.

 https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin

-- Steve

Is this really still the case? Note that the document says:

"using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"

It really used to say "real name", but it was changed by Linus in 2023
[1]. Note especially this section by Linus:

" It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook 'real
   name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even thought
   about it.  And despite the language, we've always accepted nicknames and
   that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary wording."

The wording sounds quite clear to me. And I'm certain that there were
contributions under pseudonymous identity that have been accepted
since then, most famously by Asahi Lina, a vtuber persona [2]. I don't
really see a difference between that and "unknownbbqrx", other than
the latter doesn't sound like a real name.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2e2f6b0ef8551bf3bd8255729d27e3ad9451e562

Tomas