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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:23:07 -0800 From: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>, Micha?? K??pie?? <kernel@...pniu.pl>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>, Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] fujitsu-laptop: renames and cleanups On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:47:56PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:53:19PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:38:04PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > > > Do you want me to continue to use Acked-by, or should I switch to > > > Reviewed-by? > > > > These tags do have different meanings, and have come up at Kernel Summit the > > last couple of years. My interpretation of those discussions is: > > > > Acked-by: I have no objection to this patch, but I didn't really give it a > > thorough review. I trust your judgement. e.g. minor change to your driver to > > support a subsystem API change. These are of very little value. > > > > Reviewed-by: I have carefully reviewed this patch and would like it to be > > applied. This should usually come with some sort of commentary describing the > > level of review or an area you focused on. This is what we would like to see > > from all of our driver maintainers. These are high value. > > > > Linus *really* dislikes one line acked by's, and only *slightly* more so than > > one line reviewed by's. :-) > > Got it, thanks, this is very helpful. > > In light of this I give you the following. > > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net> > > This patch series applies a much delayed patch series which implements a > very useful clean up to the fujitsu-laptop driver. Among other things it > tidies up naming conventions within the driver to better reflect the > functionality and to be more consistent with the rest of the kernel. This > will make future maintenance and feature additions much easier for all > concerned. > > As per subsequent discussion we have agreed to drop patch 8/10 from the > series: it creates problems on newer hardware and the issue it is addressing > will be more completely dealt with in a subsequent patch series. Absolutely awesome :-) Thanks! > > Regards > jonathan > -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center
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