On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 09:23:22PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:12:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Unless someone explicitly gives you a tag for something you shouldn't > > usually assume that one applies, especially with maintainers giving acks > > on their own trees since that has process meaning - it's saying that the > > maintainer is OK with it being applied to some other tree which is > > something it's worth being careful about. > Hm, it depends on maintainer and sub-system then. I did such "looks good" -> > Acked-by conversions before. Not that many, but noone argued. [1] also says it's > sometimes possible. Anyway, sorry for inconvenience. I'll get to remember that > I'd better ask explicit acked-by from you, no assumption. Like I say it's much more important when it's a patch that someone would normally apply themselves since it makes a much bigger difference process wise if you ack or apply a patch.
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