I can only answer #1. "Acked-by" is a normal (in English) way to say "Acknowledged by". This is perhaps the first stage so that people to later pull know that Linaro has seen the change and that they are looking it over. The "Tested-By" is the same. Neither of this is a normal git function. I would guess that the person who did the commit simply put that text in as
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:40 AM, lei yang <yanglei.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hie experts, > > see below commit: > > commit abb959f8a3f125a6e6641abbd020111516dfc8f6 > Author: Javi Merino <javi.mer...@arm.com> > Date: Fri Dec 16 16:04:36 2011 +0100 > > ARM: 7237/1: PL330: Fix driver freeze > > Add a req_running field to the pl330_thread to track which request (if > any) has been submitted to the DMA. This mechanism replaces the old > one in which we tried to guess the same by looking at the PC of the > DMA, which could prevent the driver from sending more requests if it > didn't guess correctly. > > Reference: <1323631637-9610-1-git-send-email-javi.mer...@arm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.mer...@arm.com> > Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.si...@linaro.org> > Tested-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.beh...@linaro.org> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> > > > I know git commit -s can add my self with "signed off by me" but how > to get acked by and tested by? > > > other 2 questions: > > 1) what does mean acked by? > > 2) what's the different for the first signed off with the last signed-off > > > Lei > > -- > > -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown --
