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Tsirkin" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_R=F6del?= Cc: Linus Torvalds , Konstantin Ryabitsev , KVM list , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mie@igel.co.jp Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup Message-ID: <20220513081456-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20220510082351-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Jörg Rödel wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:23:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And - once again - I want to complain about the "Link:" in that commit. > > I have to say that for me (probably for others as well) those Link tags > pointing to the patch submission have quite some value: > > 1) First of all it is an easy proof that the patch was actually > submitted somewhere for public review before it went into a > maintainers tree. > > 2) The patch submission is often the entry point to the > discussion which lead to this patch. From that email I can > see what was discussed and often there is even a link to > previous versions and the discussions that happened there. It > helps to better understand how a patch came to be the way it > is. I know this should ideally be part of the commit message, > but in reality this is what I also use the link tag for. > > 3) When backporting a patch to a downstream kernel it often > helps a lot to see the whole patch-set the change was > submitted in, especially when it comes to fixes. With the > Link: tag the whole submission thread is easy to find. > > I can stop adding them to patches if you want, but as I said, I think > there is some value in them which make me want to keep them. > > Regards, > > Joerg Yea, me too ... Linus, will it be less problematic if it's a different tag, other than Link? What if it's Message-Id: ? Still a problem? -- MST