Re: [PATCH 00/10] fujitsu-laptop: renames and cleanups

From: MichaÅ KÄpieÅ
Date: Sun Feb 26 2017 - 06:38:28 EST


> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:53:19PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:38:04PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> >> > Do you want me to continue to use Acked-by, or should I switch to
> >> > Reviewed-by?
> >>
> >> These tags do have different meanings, and have come up at Kernel Summit the
> >> last couple of years. My interpretation of those discussions is:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: I have no objection to this patch, but I didn't really give it a
> >> thorough review. I trust your judgement. e.g. minor change to your driver to
> >> support a subsystem API change. These are of very little value.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: I have carefully reviewed this patch and would like it to be
> >> applied. This should usually come with some sort of commentary describing the
> >> level of review or an area you focused on. This is what we would like to see
> >> from all of our driver maintainers. These are high value.
> >>
> >> Linus *really* dislikes one line acked by's, and only *slightly* more so than
> >> one line reviewed by's. :-)
> >
> > Got it, thanks, this is very helpful.
> >
> > In light of this I give you the following.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, applied for testing with above tag.

Andy,

It looks like you missed this part of Jonathan's message:

> As per subsequent discussion we have agreed to drop patch 8/10 from the
> series: it creates problems on newer hardware and the issue it is addressing
> will be more completely dealt with in a subsequent patch series.

I see that patch 8/10 was applied to testing as well. Could you please
drop that single patch?

Thanks,

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Best regards,
MichaÅ KÄpieÅ