Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Filter out hidden symbols from labels

Nick Clifton
2019-01-29T12:57:53Z

Hi Arnaldo,

>> Sorry - I do not think that I have the authority to do that. I am not a
>> perftools maintainer (or a kernel maintainer). For what it is worth the
>> patch does look good to me, but I think that a real maintainer needs to
>> approve it.
>
> Ok, I was more thinking about this part of
> Documentation/process/submittingpatches.txt:
>
> ----------------------------
> 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: (but note that it is usually better to ask for an
> explicit ack).
> ----------------------------
>
> But its ok, if you still don't feel this should be added, I'll just
> leave a Cc: you, ok?