Re: [PATCH 2/3] docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Newcomers to the kernel need to learn the different tags that are
> used in commit messages and when to apply them. Acked-by is sometimes
> misunderstood, since the documentation did not really clarify (up to
> the previous commit) when it should be used, especially compared to
> Reviewed-by.
> 
> The previous commit already clarified who the usual providers of Acked-by
> tags are, with examples. Thus provide a clarification paragraph for
> the comparison with Reviewed-by, and give a couple examples reusing the
> cases given above, in the previous commit.
> 
> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index c7a28af235f7..7b0ac7370cb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -480,6 +480,12 @@ 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).
>  
> +Acked-by: is also less formal than Reviewed-by:.  For instance, maintainers may
> +use it to signify that they are OK with a patch landing, but they may not have
> +reviewed it as thoroughly as if a Reviewed-by: was provided.  Similarly, a key
> +user may not have carried out a technical review of the patch, yet they may be
> +satisfied with the general approach, the feature or the user-facing interface.
> +
>  Acked-by: does not necessarily indicate acknowledgement of the entire patch.
>  For example, if a patch affects multiple subsystems and has an Acked-by: from
>  one subsystem maintainer then this usually indicates acknowledgement of just
> -- 
> 2.48.0
> 

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>