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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 26 May 2010, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> If you want I can send you and Andrew a duplicate of
> what I sent this morning, with the only difference
> being added Acked-by's.

I assume this will come through Andrew, so it depends on whether he is so 
resigned to manually adding acks from following threads or not.

Personally, I think it's one of the responsibilities of the person pushing 
the patch to do. Having the acked-by and reviewed-by trail should be one 
of the things that makes it _way_ easier for upstream to decide whether a 
patch should go in - especially if the people in question are active 
maintainers.

		Linus