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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:09:10 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said: > >> +If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a >> +patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can >> +arrange to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog. >> +>> +Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that >> +maintainer neither wrote, merged nor forwarded the patch themselves.> > Do we want to add verbiage saying that an Acked-By: is also useful when it > comes from somebody (likely the original reporter) who has actually tested the > patch? I'd rather see a Tested-By: for that. There is a difference between a maintainer ack and a tester ok. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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