From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6934C988 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 14:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A23C1FA97 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 14:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:44:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Laurent Pinchart In-Reply-To: <2513219.zeNxM5s3Dn@avalon> Message-ID: References: <1400925225.6956.25.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <1734054.557RqAjsBf@avalon> <20140528231845.GA8518@core.coreip.homeip.net> <2513219.zeNxM5s3Dn@avalon> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 29 May 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > We most certainly do, but if we want that credit to be an incentive, it has to > have value. A casual review tag could even be seen as having a negative value. > My opinion is most probably strongly biased on that subject though. There are patches that straddle multiple subsystems. Maybe we need something to indicate that the portion relevant to a certain subsystems have been approved? I often see these with the slab allocators and sometimes I just ack them to indicate that the slab portions are fine thinking people know that this is in my role as slab maintainer.