On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 17:24, Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear Philip, > > I didn't mean to be harsh with you, I apologize if this is the message > I conveyed. Really! Dear Fabio, No apology necessary :-) > > > Now it is clearer to me what acking means. I've given only a handful of > acks because I thought I should also check if they applied and if they > build. It takes time. Now I understand it is not required. Thanks. > Yeah I try to ack as many as I can now, but couldn't possibly do as many as I do if I had to build test them all, especially with my own code to write and a family/full time non-kernel dev role. It is certainly desirable for the majority, but if the code looks good/correct and is a simple patch then in my mind an Acked-by is fine to give in any case. That said, I will no doubt make mistakes on that. > > Please, don't ever think I'm not more than sure that you give a lot > of your _unpaid_ time to the kernel and I thank you very much > I know what it means, because I too have other commitments :-) Thank you, and I appreciate your involvement so keep up the good work :-) Regards, Phil
