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docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by
authorMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:29:45 +0000 (16:29 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:46:22 +0000 (10:46 -0700)
commit25fb101385f7abf6d24ae92cd8f8c84882d1e942
treed0b95b9f16318fe0ad856d32c3508aada7462ec7
parentcd9123eeb2245a1d63d3677118322bf2fc0d4a23
docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by

Newcomers to the kernel need to learn the different tags that are
used in commit messages and when to apply them. Acked-by is sometimes
misunderstood, since the documentation did not really clarify (up to
the previous commit) when it should be used, especially compared to
Reviewed-by.

The previous commit already clarified who the usual providers of Acked-by
tags are, with examples. Thus provide a clarification paragraph for
the comparison with Reviewed-by, and give a couple examples reusing the
cases given above, in the previous commit.

Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250112152946.761150-3-ojeda@kernel.org
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst