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charset="utf-8" Common understanding of word "Reviewer" is: a person performing a review work [1]. Tools are not persons, thus cannot be reviewers in this term. Also tools cannot make statements ("A Reviewed-by tag is a statement of opinion"), since making a statement needs some sort of conscious mind. Our docs already clearly mark that "Reviewed-by" must come from a person: - "By offering my Reviewed-by: tag, I state that:" Usage of first person "I" and word "state" - "A Reviewed-by tag is *a statement of opinion* that the patch is an appropriate modification of the kernel without any remaining serious" Only a person can make a statement of opinion. - "Any interested reviewer (who has done the work) can offer a Reviewed-by" A person can offer a tag thus above does not grant the tool permission to offer a tag. However this is not enough and apparently English is not that precise, so let's clarify that only a person can state the "Reviewer's statement of oversight". Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reviewer [1] Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Mark Brown --- I find it silly to need to describe English, but it seems it is needed. https://lore.kernel.org/all/fd3b2ca7-4d64-4c4b-98a3-7d3285fa6826@roeck-us.n= et/ --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/p= rocess/submitting-patches.rst index d7290e208e72..a989de43f3db 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -581,10 +581,10 @@ By offering my Reviewed-by: tag, I state that: =20 A Reviewed-by tag is a statement of opinion that the patch is an appropriate modification of the kernel without any remaining serious -technical issues. Any interested reviewer (who has done the work) can -offer a Reviewed-by tag for a patch. This tag serves to give credit to -reviewers and to inform maintainers of the degree of review which has been -done on the patch. Reviewed-by: tags, when supplied by reviewers known to +technical issues. Any interested reviewer (who has done the work and is a +person) can offer a Reviewed-by tag for a patch. This tag serves to give +credit to reviewers and to inform maintainers of the degree of review whic= h has +been done on the patch. Reviewed-by: tags, when supplied by reviewers kno= wn to understand the subject area and to perform thorough reviews, will normally increase the likelihood of your patch getting into the kernel. =20 --=20 2.51.0