linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86: Separate out x86

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Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:54:52 +0000
From:   "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
To:     "keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "ebiederm@...ssion.com" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86: Separate out x86_regset for 32 and 64 bit

On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 14:33 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> I think of "Ack" to mean "I am a maintainer of this area and someone
> can
> carry this instead of it going via my tree". While I certainly poke
> and
> ptrace and x86 a lot, I probably wouldn't Ack in this part of the
> kernel. But it does seem "Reviewed-by" is a stronger signal[1].

I thought I remembered reading in some kernel docs somewhere to demote
reviewed-by's to acks if anything changed, so some credit goes in for
the past work on it. Cannot find anything now, thanks for the
clarification.