From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754488Ab2KMWcc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:32:32 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54407 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753463Ab2KMWcb (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:32:31 -0500 Message-ID: <50A2CA54.9050000@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:31:48 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frank.rowand@am.sony.com CC: Thiago Farina , linux list Subject: Re: acked-by meaning References: <50A07169.6090201@infradead.org> <50A2C5C3.8040804@am.sony.com> In-Reply-To: <50A2C5C3.8040804@am.sony.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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