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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 and cannot take responsibility for the review. 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 might not be enough, so let's clarify that only a person with a known identity 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 Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Changes in v2: 1. Add tags 2. Rephrase/simplify a bit commit msg. Rephrase title - drop "in English". 3. Add "with known identity", suggested by David Hildenbrand. I retained previous tags, assuming this change is within spirit of previous version and there were no objections on the list. --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/p= rocess/submitting-patches.rst index d7290e208e72..cc6a1f73d7f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -581,12 +581,12 @@ 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 -understand the subject area and to perform thorough reviews, will normally -increase the likelihood of your patch getting into the kernel. +technical issues. Any interested reviewer (who has done the work and is a +person with known identity) 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 understand the subject area and to perform thorough rev= iews, +will normally increase the likelihood of your patch getting into the kerne= l. =20 Both Tested-by and Reviewed-by tags, once received on mailing list from te= ster or reviewer, should be added by author to the applicable patches when send= ing --=20 2.53.0