From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch tags [was writeout stalls in current -git]
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:10:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7192.1194624647@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:26:51 +0100." <20071106232651.GP26163@stusta.de>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> What's missing is a definition which of them are formal tags that must
> be explicitely given (look at point 13 in SubmittingPatches).
>
> Signed-off-by: and Reviewed-by: are the formal tags someone must have
> explicitely given and that correspond to some statement.
>
> OTOH, I can translate a "sounds fine" or "works for me" someone else
> gave me into an Acked-by: resp. Tested-by: tag.
The discussion of the Cc: tag says:
This is the only tag which might be added without an explicit
action by the person it names.
I think that addresses your comment, no? Certainly I wouldn't feel that
I could add any of the other tags to a patch I posted - that's the job
of the person named there.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-22 6:22 100% iowait on one of cpus in current -git Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-22 9:11 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-10-22 9:43 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-22 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-22 9:59 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-10-22 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-22 10:40 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071022105525.GA6732@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-22 10:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-22 10:58 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071022111907.GA21640@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-22 11:19 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-22 12:21 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071022123707.GA4240@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-22 12:37 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-22 13:05 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071022131045.GA5357@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-22 13:10 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-22 13:28 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071022134113.GA5644@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-22 13:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-31 15:22 ` Torsten Kaiser
[not found] ` <E1InUvi-0002gG-47@localhost>
2007-11-01 7:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-01 18:20 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-01 19:00 ` Torsten Kaiser
[not found] ` <E1InmAI-0003ME-2i@localhost>
2007-11-02 2:21 ` writeout stalls " Fengguang Wu
2007-11-02 7:50 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-02 10:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <E1IntqD-0001dK-OE@localhost>
2007-11-02 10:33 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-05 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-06 10:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-06 16:25 ` Patch tags [was writeout stalls in current -git] Jonathan Corbet
2007-11-06 17:03 ` Balbir Singh
2007-11-06 23:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-09 16:10 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2007-11-09 16:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-02 19:22 ` writeout stalls in current -git Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-02 20:43 ` David Chinner
2007-11-02 21:02 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-04 11:19 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-05 1:45 ` David Chinner
2007-11-05 7:01 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-05 18:27 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-06 4:25 ` David Chinner
2007-11-06 7:10 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-06 19:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-06 20:26 ` Torsten Kaiser
[not found] ` <E1IpKZ4-0004je-Lb@localhost>
2007-11-06 9:17 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-06 21:53 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-06 23:31 ` David Chinner
2007-11-07 2:13 ` David Chinner
2007-11-07 7:15 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-11-08 0:38 ` David Chinner
2007-11-20 13:16 ` Damien Wyart
2007-11-20 21:09 ` David Chinner
[not found] ` <E1Inljm-0002DW-CL@localhost>
2007-11-02 1:54 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-02 7:42 ` Torsten Kaiser
[not found] ` <E1InrKN-0000MK-G5@localhost>
2007-11-02 7:52 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-02 17:47 ` Torsten Kaiser
[not found] ` <20071023075513.GA7196@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-23 7:55 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: don't drop PG_dirty when releasing sub-page-sized dirty file Fengguang Wu
2007-10-23 10:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20071023115620.GA5678@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-23 11:56 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-23 14:10 ` Chris Mason
[not found] ` <20071023144014.GA6174@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-23 14:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-23 10:17 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20071023144139.GB6174@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-23 14:41 ` Fengguang Wu
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