Re: [PATCH 2/3] docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM Neal Gompa <neal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This doesn't make sense as a distinction. What defines "thoroughly"?
>
> It is a call, but when you give a Reviewed-by, it at least includes
> what the "Reviewer's statement of oversight" mentions, unlike an
> Acked-by.
>
> > To be honest, I think you should go the other way and become okay with
> > people sending Reviewed-by tags when people have looked over a patch
> > and consider it good to land.
>
> I am not sure what you mean. It is OK for people to send Reviewed-by
> tags. The original discussion was about Acked-by because that is the
> one that was usually used by maintainers only.
>
> If what you mean is that Reviewed-by should not require an actual
> review, then that is not the purpose of the tag. Please see the
> "Reviewer's statement of oversight" -- its first bullet says:
>
>      (a) I have carried out a technical review of this patch to
>          evaluate its appropriateness and readiness for inclusion into
>          the mainline kernel.
>

I've had my Reviewed-by tags silently ignored or deliberately stripped
because even though I've done a technical review, the maintainer does
not believe that I did. Therefore, what I am saying is that
maintainers seem to speciously decide whether an Acked-by or
Reviewed-by tag is appropriate or not *after* someone has sent it.

This is the fundamental problem I have right now. This decision is not
the maintainer's to make, it is the submitter's.


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