Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86: Separate out x86_regset for 32 and 64 bit

From: Edgecombe, Rick P
Date: Thu Mar 17 2022 - 17:55:21 EST


On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 14:33 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> I think of "Ack" to mean "I am a maintainer of this area and someone
> can
> carry this instead of it going via my tree". While I certainly poke
> and
> ptrace and x86 a lot, I probably wouldn't Ack in this part of the
> kernel. But it does seem "Reviewed-by" is a stronger signal[1].

I thought I remembered reading in some kernel docs somewhere to demote
reviewed-by's to acks if anything changed, so some credit goes in for
the past work on it. Cannot find anything now, thanks for the
clarification.