Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry

From	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject	Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry
Date	2017-05-22 14:10 +0200
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:06:04PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2017, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > It's commonplace for me to provide Acks for patches I know will
> > > *eventually* be applied by me.  Removing them when applying patches is
> > > part of my daily routine.

> > You're the only person I'm aware of who does this.

> The operative words here are "I'm aware".  Conversely, I know lots of
> Maintainers who do this, but I guess that comes with the territory
> when dealing with the types of patch-sets that I handle.  Often times

Interesting...  any examples?  I get quite a bit of this as well as a
result of regmap and regulator and I can't say it's ever come up.

> > > TL;DR:  If a Maintainer (or anyone for that matter) provides a *-by
> > > tag, it should be carried forward with the (unchanged) patch until
> > > acceptance.

> > Given what acks get used for (they're more of a process thing than
> > anything else) I'm not so sure it works well for them.

> I'm not entirely sure what is meant by this.

An ack is basically a step down from a review saying "I'm OK with this
being applied" but not actually "I did a thorough review".  That makes
it a bit funny compared to a review, testing or similar.

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Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 10:00 +0200
  Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2017-05-16 10:00 +0200
    Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 13:10 +0200
      Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> - 2017-05-16 14:00 +0200
      Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry  Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2017-05-22 13:10 +0200
        Re: [RESEND PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update MAX77802 PMIC entry Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-05-22 14:10 +0200

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