On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Question - what is rule for "Signed-off-by:"? I'm hesitant to add that if
> I haven't actually compiled+tested a fix, as I've seen too many instances
> of "obvious fix contains bug" to believe visual inspection is enough. If
> "Signed-off-by:" simply indicates "Yes, this person approves of the change
> in principle" then that's OK by me. Andrew, do you use the "CC" tag for
> that?
I think signed-off is only used when you either (1) change the patch or
(2) pass it forward. I have seen people use "Acked-by:" for what you seem
to want to do here.
FWIW, I have tested the patch with UML.
Pekka
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