Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories

Path	csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod
From	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories
Date	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:50:02 +0100
Message-ID	<qotEC-89q-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<qjTgm-2Z7-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <qjWnT-7zG-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <qk6dA-5ph-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
X-Original-To	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
User-Agent	KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/4.1.0-rc5+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; )
MIME-Version	1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding	7Bit
Content-Type	text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Sender	robomod@news.nic.it
List-ID	<linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Approved	robomod@news.nic.it
Lines	28
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway
X-Original-Cc	Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
X-Original-Date	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:16:45 +0100
X-Original-Message-ID	<4167825.7F75u7l572@vostro.rjw.lan>
X-Original-References	<cover.1444924623.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> <561FFDA7.3080903@codeaurora.org> <20151016055118.GR19018@linux>
X-Original-Sender	linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Xref	csiph.com linux.kernel:1257748

Show key headers only | View raw

On Friday, October 16, 2015 11:21:18 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 15-10-15, 12:25, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > Btw, does a Review-by have an implicit Acked-by?
> 
> I have attended a session at Linaro Connect where this was discussed
> and the answer was:
> 
> Acked-by: is more of a general agreement from the person that he is
> fine with the patch, but he might not have done a very careful review
> and he isn't really responsible for the patch's content.
> 
> Reviewed-by: is a more strict tag and implies that the reviewer has
> reviewed it at his best and he is as much responsible for the content
> of the patch as the author.

That's a bit too much IMO.  It means "I have carried out a detailed review
of this patch and haven't found problems in it."  How much responsibility
that implies is not so clear (evidently, there are differing opinions
regarding that).

Thanks,
Rafael

--
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/

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2015-10-28 08:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-10-28 09:30 +0100

csiph-web