If the acked-by comes fairly shortly after the original
patch, and isn't excessively buried in a bunch of discussion,
then Andrew will catch it, and add it to the patch in his
queue.
If you have to resubmit the patch anyway, then of course,
add the acked-by then.
If neither of the above applies, and the acked-by is lost,
but your patch is successfully applied anyway, then either of
(1) if you're feeling lazy, don't worry about it, or
(2) reply again to that lkml thread, being sure akpm is on
the cc list, asking Andrew to add the acked-by.
Andrew is the expert, of course, in such matters.
If he says something contrary to the above, ignore me.
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