To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:27:05 +0200
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.99.0706010648030.9768@sigma.j-a-k-j.com> (John Anthony Kazos, Jr.'s message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:53:06 -0400 (EDT)")
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"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> writes:

> Indeed. Acked-by: implies authority, and only very few people should be 
> able to do it. Namely, the only person who can ACK a patch is a person who 
> could also NACK a patch and expect it to actually be dropped. If I think a 
> patch is bad, I can say so, but as I have no authority, my statement would 
> be taken on merit alone, whereas Linus or Andrew or such could just NACK 
> it and move on without having to spew a blurb every time.

Everyone always has some authority so everyone can ack or nack any
patch and I hope the action taken will always depend on merit
rather than person, especially if it's a technical issue and not
some style etc. thing.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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