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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Am?rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid Wunused-but-set warning
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:11:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711101134.613d88ee.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110711050951.GA22699@sirena.org.uk>

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:09:52 +0100 Mark Brown wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 04:53:33PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > But do as you like.  Which parts of SubmittingPatches do you think
> > support your interpretation?
> 
> > and should we have this line:
> > 	Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:.
> > changed to:
> > 	Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by: or Reviewed-by:.
> > e.g.?
> 
> Current practice seems to be that Acked-by is used instead of
> Reviewed-by - the latter is comparatively rare.


ISTM that more education and encouragement are needed about Reviewed-by:.
(Patch Review is a possible kernel summit topic.)

and that SubmittingPatches should be updated since we generally refer people
to that file and not to Documentation/development-process/


Samples from my partial mailing list archives:

linux-pci mailing list:		Acked-by: 93	Reviewed-by: 81
linux-mm mailing list:		Acked-by: 2104	Reviewed-by: 1344
netdev mailing list:		Acked-by: 1366	Reviewed-by: 659

---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-09 16:24 Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-07-10 16:16 ` Américo Wang
2011-07-10 16:24   ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-10 16:28     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-10 16:49       ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-10 16:51         ` Américo Wang
2011-07-10 17:22           ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-10 17:24         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-10 18:02         ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-10 22:56           ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-10 23:07             ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-10 23:21               ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-10 23:53                 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-11  5:09                   ` Mark Brown
2011-07-11 17:11                     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-07-11 22:42                       ` Mark Brown
2011-07-13  1:15                       ` Américo Wang
2011-07-13  2:21                         ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-13 12:16                           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-11 20:32                   ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-11  5:55                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-11 20:37                   ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-13  0:35                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-07-13  0:55                     ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-10 16:49     ` Américo Wang
2011-07-13 11:39   ` Michal Marek
2011-07-18 19:00   ` Arnaud Lacombe

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