On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Dave Martin wrote:
> Acked-by = This patch is definitely right, or I fully agree with the
> patch and trust the author's judgement ("I will share
> responsibility for the correctness and appropriateness of this
> patch"). This implies Reviewed-by.
> Normally an ack shouldn't
> get added unless the acker is confident that the patch is
> adequately tested (where the level of testing deemed adequate
> depends on the complexity of the patch) Again, this may rely on
> judgement of the comptence of the author and the other
> reviewers.
>
> Reviewed-by = This patch looks correct and appropriate and I judge it
> ok to merge, but I assume the author knows what they're
> doing, and I don't necessarily take responsibility for the
> change.
I think some aspects of the above two are mixed up.
Normally, ACK == acknowledgement i.e. "I conceptually agree with the
patch", but that doesn't necessarily mean that it was reviewed
thoroughly. In other words, this quite matches your definition, but
does not imply a Reviewed-by, and that assumes the author knows what
they're doing.
Reviewed-by means that you did review the patch content in details,
whether or not the author knows what they're doing. A Reviewed-by
obviously implies an Acked-by.
Nicolas
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