Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Implement Send and Sync for clk

From: Brian Masney

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 13:46:18 EST


On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 1:28 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
=> On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I am not a clk maintainer, so I can't leave an Acked-by for you to
> > pick this up unfortunately. I've been quite active in the clk
> > subsystem though the last 6 months or so.
>
> In that case, I could take your Acked-by as an active contributor of
> clk if you are willing to provide it, i.e. with the "# Suffix"
> notation I introduced a year ago:
>
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by
>
> cd9123eeb224 ("docs: submitting-patches: clarify Acked-by and
> introduce "# Suffix"")
>
> i.e. Acked-bys can nowadays be provided by other stakeholders apart
> from maintainers, e.g. people with domain knowledge, userspace
> reviewers of uAPI patches, key users and so on.
>
> Especially so since you offered to be a co-maintainer long term, so I
> think having your Acked-by is way better that having no tag at all :)

Sure...

Acked-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx> # Active contributor to clk