On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:09:10 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

> +If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a
> +patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can
> +arrange to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog.
> +
> +Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that
> +maintainer neither wrote, merged nor forwarded the patch themselves.

Do we want to add verbiage saying that an Acked-By: is also useful when it
comes from somebody (likely the original reporter) who has actually tested the
patch?

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