Re: [PATCH 1/4] drm/sched: optimize drm_sched_job_add_dependency

["Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>]

On 5/28/25 14:30, Simona Vetter wrote:
>> Yup, I've seen that a few times. I think we, the DRM community, should
>> stop that. It's just not useful and makes the commit messages larger,
>> both for the human reader while scrolling, as for the hard drive
>> regarding storage size
> 
> I do occasionally find it useful as a record of different approaches
> considered, which sometimes people fail to adequately cover in their
> commit messages. Also useful indicator of how cursed a patch is :-)

Yeah that's certainly true :)

> But as long as anything relevant does end up in the commit message and
> people don't just delete stuff I don't care how it's done at all. It's
> just that the cost of deleting something that should have been there can
> be really nasty sometimes, and storage is cheap.

The problem is that some links to mailing list archives become 404 at some point.

But git on the other hand will keep it's history (at least as far as I know).

Again on the other hand LKML is the one exception which tends to keep things forever: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/16GLAZ-1rFguGC@fwd07.sul.t-online.com/ :D

Christian.

> -Sima