Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01T06:10:59Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:09:10 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
>
>> +If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a
>> +patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can
>> +arrange to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog.
>> +
>> +Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that
>> +maintainer neither wrote, merged nor forwarded the patch themselves.
>
> Do we want to add verbiage saying that an Acked-By: is also useful when it
> comes from somebody (likely the original reporter) who has actually tested the
> patch?

I'd rather see a Tested-By: for that.

There is a difference between a maintainer ack and a tester ok.

-hpa