linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

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Message-ID: <7064.1180812889@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:34:49 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:04:29 +0530, debian developer said:
> On 6/2/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > It's quite common for experienced kernel developers to ack completely broken
> > patches.
> 
> common!!
> 
> is'nt that a bit too ...

Lots of code looks totally reasonable to a kernel coder, except it doesn't
actually work when run, or doesn't actually build for a common architecture.
Let's face it - if I hit a bug on my Dell Latitude in a -mm kernel, our
current depth of testers means that I'm probably the only person who's
likely to test the fix before it goes uptream to Linus as a "probably works".

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