Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2007 23:10:42 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by: |
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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.
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