On 11/11/2012 05:40 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: > Hi, > > What is the meaning of 'Acked-by:' line? Is the same of LGTM? How it > differs from 'Reviewed-by:'?
Reviewed-by: is stronger than Acked-by:. If someone replies with Reviewed-by, they also accept some responsibility for fixing any problems that the patch might introduce after it is merged. Acked-by just means agreement with the patch. > If someone acks a patch (can anybody acks or just the maintainer?), > does it mean that he will also apply the patch to his tree? Anybody can reply to a patch with Acked-by. No, it doesn't mean that the replying/acking person will apply the patch to any tree. Have you read what Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/development-process/5.Posting and 6.Followthrough say about Acked-by? -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/