Re: [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: Clarify half-baked review tags

From: Geert Uytterhoeven

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 04:30:14 EST


On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 at 10:09, Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Reviewed-by even with the "# subpart" still appears in person's credits
> > and reviewing entire patch of 700 lines of diff code (like Frank's SPI
> > patch) is not the same as 10 diff codes for one driver.
>
> Yes, if you want to spoil that, you'd need to introduce
>
> Partly-reviewed-by: ...
>
> or something.

With a parameter taking a percentage or number of files or lines,
to serve as input for the Big Statistics Calculation?

Doh...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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