Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >>>> Is this an Acked-by? >>> I already added my sob line above. >> To my understanding of Documentation/SubmittingPatches you add your >> S-o-b if you submit my patch upstream. Documenting that it went though >> your hands. If I submit the patch upstream and you said, that patch is >> okay you add your Acked-by: >> >> Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that >> maintainer neither contributed to nor forwarded the patch. > > As a subsystem maintainer I add my signed-off-by, just like David Miller > adds his sob thereafter, and so on. But as I'm not maintaining my own > tree and forwarding patches that might not be 100% correct. I put Sam on > CC. He might be able to clarify the situation.
IMHO it's quite simple: If the patch goes though your hand -> add your S-o-b If I send the patch upstream and you are happy with the patch, you give your Acked-by, I add it to the patch and send it upstream. cheers, Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Linux Solutions for Science and Industry | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de |
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