On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Anuj Phogat <anuj.pho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> With comment on patch 3 addressed: >> Patches 1-7 are: Acked-by: Anuj Phogat <anuj.pho...@gmail.com> > > Thanks for looking over the patches! > > Acked-by is used in the kernel by a maintainer to acknowledge the > changes to his particular subsystem in a patch that affects many > subsystems, or for maintainers to say "yeah, looks good to me." We use > it in Mesa to say "yeah, the idea seems good" without really saying > that we've reviewed the contents of the patch itself. > > The kernel docs describe what a Reviewed-by really means here [1], but > basically it's that (1) I read the patch, (2) I'm satisfied with the > patch, (3) I think the patch is worthwhile, and (4) I'm not making any > guarantees. :-) > > Can I upgrade your Acked-bys to Reviewed-bys? > Yes. go ahead.
> [1] > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#n498 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
