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
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