Re: Spurious Acks (was Re: PVH domU patches....)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:00:37AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:21:33 +0100
> > Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> At 14:43 -0700 on 31 Jul (1375281803), Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> >> > The latest tree with Tim's acks are at:
> >> >
> >> >    git clone git://oss.oracle.com/git/mrathor/xen.git .
> >> >    git checkout pvh.v10.acked-1
> >>
> >> This branch has my Reviewed-by: on
> >> 1f2087845751569fc55c202ac3265e18c974b0bf (PVH xen: vmcs related
> >> changes), which I don't remember giving. Please be careful about that
> >> sort of thing.
> >>
> >> There have been a few instances in the past of patches that went in on
> >> someone else's ack that seem to have sprouted mine (not from Mukesh, I
> >> should add, and AFAICT through misunderstanding rather than malice).
> >> In future I am going to revert such patches when I notice them.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Tim.
> >
> >
> > Ok, I misunderstood whey you said the code looked OK, I assumed it was
> > an implicit ack, as I've seen here in the past. I'll make a note, Tim
> > doesn't give implicit acks... :)...
> >
> > I'll remove your ack.
> 
> I'm pretty sure no one gives implicit Acks.  Saying the code looks OK

I do. If I say 'code looks OK to me' that implies to me 'Acked-by'.

That is similar to how Linux works (from Documentation/SubmittingPatches):

"                                                                      
Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:.  It is a record that the acker       
has at least reviewed the patch and has indicated acceptance.  Hence patch         
mergers will sometimes manually convert an acker's "yep, looks good to me"         
into an Acked-by:."


> is just that -- it says the code looks OK, not that the person is OK
> with the code going in, and absolutely not everything that
> "Reviewed-by" means (which is a lot more than an Ack).
> 
>  -George
> 
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