On Thu, 2026-06-04 at 13:32 +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote:

Hi Steven,

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

quoted

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.)"

Thanks Tomas for chipping in!

Just adding some information, the username unknownbbqr is in fact a
valid username for a Github account.

The user already sent a patch and updated it with a real name [1].

All this to say that, in my opinion unknownbbqrx [off-list ref]
is NOT an anonymous contribution, just a nickname that differs from the
legal name of this person (which we wouldn't validate anyway), so I
would say it complies with the rules.

Thanks,
Gabriele

[1] -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260426150928.870914-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com/ (local)

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