linux-kernel - Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:16:09 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> but Tested-by: doesn't have to involve any "actually looking at/reading
> the patch."  Right?
>
> IOW, the patch could be ugly as sin but it works...
>   

Sure, absolutely.  I never said its a substitute for review.  An ugly
working patch is useful, because its the raw material for a nice working
patch.  A nice non-working patch can be framed and admired from a
distance, but it isn't terribly useful.

    J
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