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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Feb 26 2017 - 10:13:30 EST


On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 1:30 PM, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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:

Indeed.

>
>> 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?

Good we have testing branch and thank you for pointing out. Should be fixed now.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko