[LinuxBIOS] r2550 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue Feb 6 22:57:42 CET 2007


Hi!

svn at openbios.org wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Adam Kaufman <adam.kaufman at pinnacle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
> Acked-by: Adam Kaufman <adam.kaufman at pinnacle.com>

It seems there is still some confusion about Signed-off-by
and Acked-by. The meaning of Acked-by is a real subset of
Signed-off-by. So acking a patch you already signed off
for is totally meaningless and should be avoided. The
Linux kernel guys never ack and sign off the same patch.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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