Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:47:53 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: acked-by meaning |
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On 11/11/2012 05:40 PM, Thiago Farina wrote:
> Hi, > > What is the meaning of 'Acked-by:' line? Is the same of LGTM? How it > differs from 'Reviewed-by:'?
Reviewed-by: is stronger than Acked-by:. If someone replies with Reviewed-by, they also accept some responsibility for fixing any problems that the patch might introduce after it is merged. Acked-by just means agreement with the patch.
> If someone acks a patch (can anybody acks or just the maintainer?), > does it mean that he will also apply the patch to his tree?
Anybody can reply to a patch with Acked-by. No, it doesn't mean that the replying/acking person will apply the patch to any tree.
Have you read what Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/development-process/5.Posting and 6.Followthrough say about Acked-by?
-- ~Randy
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