On Friday, October 16, 2015 11:21:18 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
On 15-10-15, 12:25, Saravana Kannan wrote:
Btw, does a Review-by have an implicit Acked-by?
I have attended a session at Linaro Connect where this was discussed and the answer was:
Acked-by: is more of a general agreement from the person that he is fine with the patch, but he might not have done a very careful review and he isn't really responsible for the patch's content.
Reviewed-by: is a more strict tag and implies that the reviewer has reviewed it at his best and he is as much responsible for the content of the patch as the author.
That's a bit too much IMO. It means "I have carried out a detailed review of this patch and haven't found problems in it." How much responsibility that implies is not so clear (evidently, there are differing opinions regarding that).
Thanks, Rafael