On 11/13/2012 02:12 PM, Frank Rowand wrote: > On 11/11/12 19:47, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 11/11/2012 05:40 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> What is the meaning of 'Acked-by:' line? Is the same of LGTM? How it >>> differs from 'Reviewed-by:'? >> > >> Reviewed-by: is stronger than Acked-by:. >> If someone replies with Reviewed-by, they also accept some >> responsibility for fixing any problems that the patch might >> introduce after it is merged. > > I haven't found a "responsibility for fixing any problems" in the > references provided below. Can you help me out by pointing > to a specific sentence or another reference?
Nope, I just recall it from the mailing list discussions several years ago. >> Acked-by just means agreement with the patch. >> >>> If someone acks a patch (can anybody acks or just the maintainer?), >>> does it mean that he will also apply the patch to his tree? >> >> >> Anybody can reply to a patch with Acked-by. >> No, it doesn't mean that the replying/acking person will apply >> the patch to any tree. >> >> >> Have you read what Documentation/SubmittingPatches and >> Documentation/development-process/5.Posting and 6.Followthrough >> say about Acked-by? > > Thanks... > > -Frank > -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
