From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Clarify half-baked review tags
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 09:50:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b391275-d424-4d2a-994f-6b5c650653ac@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104171744.439209-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
…
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ serves to give credit to reviewers and to inform maintainers of the degree of
> review which has been done on the patch. Reviewed-by: tags, when supplied by
> reviewers known to understand the subject area and to perform thorough reviews,
> will normally increase the likelihood of your patch getting into the kernel.
> +If the reviewer checks only piece of the patch, leaving the rest unreviewed,
> +then more appropriately is Acked-by tag.
…
Possible adjustment:
+an Acked-by tag is more appropriate then.
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-05 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 17:17 Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-11-05 8:34 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-11-05 8:54 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-11-05 8:57 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-11-05 8:50 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
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