[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/8] i965/fs: Optimize gl_FrontFacing calculation on Gen6+.

[Anuj Phogat]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Anuj Phogat <anuj.phogat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With comment on patch 3 addressed:
>> Patches 1-7 are: Acked-by: Anuj Phogat <anuj.phogat at gmail.com>
>
> Thanks for looking over the patches!
>
> Acked-by is used in the kernel by a maintainer to acknowledge the
> changes to his particular subsystem in a patch that affects many
> subsystems, or for maintainers to say "yeah, looks good to me." We use
> it in Mesa to say "yeah, the idea seems good" without really saying
> that we've reviewed the contents of the patch itself.
>
> The kernel docs describe what a Reviewed-by really means here [1], but
> basically it's that (1) I read the patch, (2) I'm satisfied with the
> patch, (3) I think the patch is worthwhile, and (4) I'm not making any
> guarantees. :-)
>
> Can I upgrade your Acked-bys to Reviewed-bys?
>
Yes. go ahead.

> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#n498