On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 17:24, Fabio M. De Francesco
[off-list ref] 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