Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry

[Lee Jones]

On Sun, 14 May 2017, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 12:36:25AM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
> > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since I'm expected to apply this I wouldn't normally expect to see my
> ack - like I say if I'm acking something for me it's normally because I
> expect someone else to actually apply it (that's the standard thing).

I don't agree with this.  You provided your Ack under the assumption
that it would be applied though another tree, but there is no reason
why it would be dropped just because that is no longer the case.
 
It's commonplace for me to provide Acks for patches I know will
*eventually* be applied by me.  Removing them when applying patches is
part of my daily routine.

TL;DR:  If a Maintainer (or anyone for that matter) provides a *-by
tag, it should be carried forward with the (unchanged) patch until
acceptance.

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Lee Jones
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