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SubjectRe: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 23:10:42 PDT, "H. Peter Anvin" said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:09:10 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
> >
> >> +If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a
> >> +patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can
> >> +arrange to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog.
> >> +
> >> +Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that
> >> +maintainer neither wrote, merged nor forwarded the patch themselves.
> >
> > Do we want to add verbiage saying that an Acked-By: is also useful when it
> > comes from somebody (likely the original reporter) who has actually tested the
> > patch?
>
> I'd rather see a Tested-By: for that.
>
> There is a difference between a maintainer ack and a tester ok.

OK by me. Half the time when a -mm breaks for me, it's an obvious one-liner
I can S-o-b: myself, the other half the time somebody else has a fix that
I keep thinking I should stick *something* on once I confirm it's fixed.

Do Linus/Andrew/major maintainers want Tested-By:'s for patches?

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