Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Does 'Reviewed-by' also imply 'Signed-off-by'?
Does a technical review include a review of licensing and copyright
issues? (It doesn't seem to be a big issue though if the submitter
signed off on it, like he should.)
> In other words, who is actually supposed to add this tag?
>
> Is it the reviewer who passes on an officially 'reviewed' patch to the
> maintainer, or is it the patch author him/herself who is responsible for
> soliciting reviews and adding the tag?
Anybody in the patch forwarding chain (author, maintainers... usually
the latter) can add Acked-by and Tested-by, based on incoming feedback.
The feedback may have explicitly stated an Acked-by or Tested-by or may
have said something equivalent. (In case of Tested-by, an appropriate
description of how was tested should have been sent. An explicit
Tested-by from the tester himself is moot then.)
Reviewed-by is a different beast. If Jon's definition of Reviewed-by
(or another definition) is "officially" adopted, people in the patch
forwarding chain should only add this tag if the reviewer sent it
explicitly in his response. Unlike with Acked-by and Tested-by, we must
not guess whether a reviewer wants to have his Reviewed-by added.
[...]
>> + (c) While there may be things that could be improved with this submission,
>> + I believe that it is, at this time, (1) a worthwhile modification to
>> + the kernel, and (2) free of known issues which would argue against its
>> + inclusion.
>> +
>> + (d) While I have reviewed the patch and believe it to be sound, I do not
>> + (unless explicitly stated elsewhere) make any warranties or guarantees
>> + that it will achieve its stated purpose or function properly in any
>> + given situation.
>
> I'm confused about how to reconcile (c) and (d) here. If you are not
> sure about whether or not the patch will achieve its stated purpose, why
> would you be arguing that it is a worthwhile modification?
Being sure of something and making guarantees are different things.
--
Stefan Richter
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