Re: [Xen-devel] Spurious Acks (was Re: PVH domU patches....)

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:00:58AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:00:37AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:21:33 +0100
> > > Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> At 14:43 -0700 on 31 Jul (1375281803), Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> > >> > The latest tree with Tim's acks are at:
> > >> >
> > >> >    git clone git://oss.oracle.com/git/mrathor/xen.git .
> > >> >    git checkout pvh.v10.acked-1
> > >>
> > >> This branch has my Reviewed-by: on
> > >> 1f2087845751569fc55c202ac3265e18c974b0bf (PVH xen: vmcs related
> > >> changes), which I don't remember giving. Please be careful about that
> > >> sort of thing.
> > >>
> > >> There have been a few instances in the past of patches that went in on
> > >> someone else's ack that seem to have sprouted mine (not from Mukesh, I
> > >> should add, and AFAICT through misunderstanding rather than malice).
> > >> In future I am going to revert such patches when I notice them.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Tim.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok, I misunderstood whey you said the code looked OK, I assumed it was
> > > an implicit ack, as I've seen here in the past. I'll make a note, Tim
> > > doesn't give implicit acks... :)...
> > >
> > > I'll remove your ack.
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure no one gives implicit Acks.  Saying the code looks OK
> 
> I do. If I say 'code looks OK to me' that implies to me 'Acked-by'.
> 
> That is similar to how Linux works (from Documentation/SubmittingPatches):
> 
> "                                                                      
> Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:.  It is a record that the acker  
>      
> has at least reviewed the patch and has indicated acceptance.  Hence patch    
>      

"at least reviewed the patch"? That's news to me. Geroge once told me
that Acked-by only means "I'm OK with this idea, I don't even look at the
patch at all". I'm quite confused here. :-(


Wei.

> mergers will sometimes manually convert an acker's "yep, looks good to me"    
>      
> into an Acked-by:."
> 
> 
> > is just that -- it says the code looks OK, not that the person is OK
> > with the code going in, and absolutely not everything that
> > "Reviewed-by" means (which is a lot more than an Ack).
> > 
> >  -George
> > 
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