Re: acked-by meaning

[Randy Dunlap]

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.
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?

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~Randy
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