linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/6] Linux Kernel Markers

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Message-ID: <adalkbirwn7.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:30:36 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] Linux Kernel Markers - Architecture Independent Code

 > > Anybody got a proposed scheme for the case where somebody like myself
 > > who is *not* a member of the Maintainer Cabal has looked at a patch, and
 > > found a valid show-stopper that's bigger than just whitespace (breaks on
 > > 64-bit, locking issues, etc), or other commentary that *should* be addressed
 > > before it gets merged?  I'd like *some* way to tag a patch with "I had an
 > > issue with V1, but the author addressed it to my satisfaction in V2"....

 > I think that'd be Reviewed-By.  While you are not part of the smokey room
 > cabal you have shown technical expertise in various areas so it seems
 > perfectly fine to have reviewed-by from you.  The fix vs a previous version
 > should probably be just in the text with a paragraph ala:

 > Issue blah in a previous version as found by Valdis Kletnieks has been fixed
 > by doing foo.

At ksummit Andrew also mentioned including a link to the relevant
mailing list discussion too, and I think this would be a good example
of when that would be useful.

 - R.
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