Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:02:05 +0100 | From | Chris Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch: Check for Reviewed-by under --strict |
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 04:33:10PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > > Some subsystem polices have a strict requirement that every patch must > > have at least one reviewer before being approved for upstream. Since > > encouraging review is good policy (great review is even better policy!) > > enforce checking for a Reviewed-by when checkpath is run with --strict > > (or with --review). > > Hmm, do you imply the maintainer would have to add his Reviewed-by in > addition to Signed-off-by? I find that a bit too much (especially if you > intend to enforce this over at our corner of the kernel ;)
I do believe we should be keeping the (our, my?) notion of review out of the signed-off-by tag (which imo is a legal statement about the provenance of a patch), and so yes we shouldn't be pushing patches that haven't gone through the rite of fire and been seconded by someone else. -Chris
-- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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