On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 02:45:43PM +0200, Jiri Palecek wrote: > >>Signed-off-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx> > >>Tested-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx> > >This is weird. I always thought "Signed-off-by" implies some form of > >testing (unless stated otherwise) :-) > Well, I thought it was quite common that someone authors a patch but > doesn't have means to test it. Anyway, after reading Kernel Newbies, I > added that to indicate that I did test it and if there's need to test > anything reasonably sized on this particualr configuration, I'm open for it. Not being able to test a patch isn't uncommon in the absolute sense, but it's certainly uncommon when viewed as a percentage of the total number of patches sent to LKML. A SoB is generally taken to imply basic functional testing unless otherwise stated, e.g. most folks add a note in the cover letter or patch comment when something has only been compile tested or not tested at all.
