linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] lib: Rename compiler intrinsic selects to GENERIC_LIB

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Date:   Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
To:     jhogan@...nel.org
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Subject:     Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] lib: Rename compiler intrinsic selects to GENERIC_LIB_*

On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:02:58 PDT (-0700), jhogan@...nel.org wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 03:39:34PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> Sorry, I'm not sure if this is the right patch -- someone suggested acking 
>> this, but it's already Review-By me and if I understand correctly it's going 
>> through your tree.  I'm a bit new to this, but if it helps then here's a
>> 
>> Acked-By: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
>
> Thanks Palmer.
>
> No worries. FYI Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst appears to
> now contain lots of gory detail about what Acked-by and Reviewed-by are
> supposed to mean.
>
> In this case an acked-by is needed to show your approval of the parts of
> the patch which touch the subsystem you are responsible for (and/or code
> which you have authored) so that the patch can go via another tree. It
> usually indicates that you've reviewed those parts of the patch too, but
> not necessarily the whole thing.

Thanks!