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From:   Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Date:   Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:58:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: remove condition with no effect
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc:     Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 12:06, Fabio M. De Francesco
<fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, August 22, 2021 1:58:10 AM CEST Phillip Potter wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 at 21:23, Saurav Girepunje
> >
> > <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Remove the condition with no effect (if == else) in rtw_led.c
> > > file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_led.c | 5 +----
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > Thanks for this, looks good.
> >
> > Acked-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phil
>
> Dear Philip,
>
> Before acking, please check at least if it applies to the current version of
> the tree and check if it compiles without adding warnings and / or errors. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fabio
>
>
>
>

Dear Fabio,

An Acked-by merely signals acknowledgement of the patch, and that is
looks OK to the person offering the tag. Please see the following
quote from the kernel.org documentation:
"Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:. It is a record that the
acker has at least reviewed the patch and has indicated acceptance."
It is not, to my knowledge, a commitment from the reviewer that the
patch applies to the given tree at that precise moment in time.

I reviewed the patch, and indicated my acceptance - the content of the
patch is fine. Whilst I will often make an effort to merge + build
test many patches, I will not do this with all of them, I simply don't
have the time due to other commitments. You can be assured that if I
have offered this tag I have at least read the patch and it looks
correct to me.

Particularly with a driver as in flux as this one, there are going to
be many merge conflicts. Advice such as this to me is not particularly
helpful, as I can promise you I'm trying :-)

Regards,
Phil