Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [4/4] Discuss how to better prevent backports of commits that turn out to cause regressions

Linus Torvalds
2024-06-16T01:14:17Z

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 07:29, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
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> Message-Id: sucks, I want a link I can open with a single click.

!00% agreed.

There is no way in hell I will endorse adding more of those completely
*idiotic* "Message-ID" things.

Yes, people use them. It's a damn shame.

There is no excuse for that completely broken model. It's objectively
and unquestionably worse than having a "link".

Here's the thing: if that message-ID isn't public, then that line
SHOULD NOT EXIST and is an actual real problem. I personally look at
those, and go "is that actually available on lore?"

And if that message-id _is_ public, then it has a link, and it's much
easier for people to check.

Ergo: there is absolutely zero reason to ever use Message-ID.

People need to stop advocating that sh*t.

And no, I'm not at all happy with the fact that apparently vhost and
kvm has made it their thing.

Paolo, Michael, Takashi, please put useful links, not those braindead
message id's in your commit messages.

Linus