Re: [PATCH] Documentation: SubmittingPatches: Add note about Reviewed-by tags

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:12:58 -0800
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As is now common in a lot of organization having an internal code review
> process (be it through Gerritt or other tools), patches extracted from
> this review process and submitted to public mailing-lists will have
> pre-existing Reviewed-by tags. Add a note about why these tags exists,
> and what a maintainer could be doing with those. Some maintainers did
> complain before that these tags had to be added when the patches get
> submitted to the public, while some just ignored and took the patches
> as-is.

So I'll confess, I'm not quite sold on this one.  This is a document for
people looking to learn about how to submit patches; it is already far
too long, complex, and bureaucratic.  I'm not at all convinced that
adding suggestions for maintainers is appropriate here.

Is there a real problem that this patch is trying to solve?

Thanks,

jon