Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 03:48:03 EST


On Friday, October 16, 2015 11:21:18 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 15-10-15, 12:25, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > Btw, does a Review-by have an implicit Acked-by?
>
> I have attended a session at Linaro Connect where this was discussed
> and the answer was:
>
> Acked-by: is more of a general agreement from the person that he is
> fine with the patch, but he might not have done a very careful review
> and he isn't really responsible for the patch's content.
>
> Reviewed-by: is a more strict tag and implies that the reviewer has
> reviewed it at his best and he is as much responsible for the content
> of the patch as the author.

That's a bit too much IMO. It means "I have carried out a detailed review
of this patch and haven't found problems in it." How much responsibility
that implies is not so clear (evidently, there are differing opinions
regarding that).

Thanks,
Rafael

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