On Monday 05 March 2012 21:08:15 Graeme Russ wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 05 March 2012 20:46:40 Graeme Russ wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > On Monday 05 March 2012 19:15:54 Marek Vasut wrote: > >> >> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for your patch, it's on it's way to application :) > >> > > >> > generally the maintainer who is picking up the patch and sending on to > >> > wolfgang would add a s-o-b rather than a-b tag ... > >> > >> I've always seen s-o-b as 'I contributed to this patch' and a-b as 'I > >> think this patch looks good (and I may have even compiled it)' and t-b > >> as 'I actually ran this on real hardware' > > > > the Linux kernel wisdom is "s-o-b means 'i handled this patch in transit > > to merge'" while "a-b means 'looks good to me'" > > So how do you differentiate between someone who actually wrote the code > (and should be praised and mocked accordingly ;)) and someone who just > shufled it from A to B?
that's what the Author field is for. the s-o-b tags are "chain of custody". -mike
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