Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's missing is a definition which of them are formal tags that must > be explicitely given (look at point 13 in SubmittingPatches). > > Signed-off-by: and Reviewed-by: are the formal tags someone must have > explicitely given and that correspond to some statement. > > OTOH, I can translate a "sounds fine" or "works for me" someone else > gave me into an Acked-by: resp. Tested-by: tag.
The discussion of the Cc: tag says: This is the only tag which might be added without an explicit action by the person it names. I think that addresses your comment, no? Certainly I wouldn't feel that I could add any of the other tags to a patch I posted - that's the job of the person named there. jon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/