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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-16T08:55:07Z

Hi Jiri,

On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 10:32 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There is no excuse for that completely broken model. It's objectively
> > and unquestionably worse than having a "link".
>
> I think the 'philosophy' behind favoring Message-id over Link is that
> Message-id is set in stone forever, while Link is not.
>
> Should lore go away at some point in the future, something else will
> probably take over, and you'll be able to search for Message-id there, but
> the Link will not be functional any more (sure, you can extract the
> Message-id: from it manually).

The premise is that kernel.org won't go away.

And if it ever goes away, we map it to its replacement in our local
/etc/dnsmasq.conf ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds