Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by: | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:27:05 +0200 |
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"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> writes:
> Indeed. Acked-by: implies authority, and only very few people should be > able to do it. Namely, the only person who can ACK a patch is a person who > could also NACK a patch and expect it to actually be dropped. If I think a > patch is bad, I can say so, but as I have no authority, my statement would > be taken on merit alone, whereas Linus or Andrew or such could just NACK > it and move on without having to spew a blurb every time.
Everyone always has some authority so everyone can ack or nack any patch and I hope the action taken will always depend on merit rather than person, especially if it's a technical issue and not some style etc. thing. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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