Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs & checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-03-17T18:58:35Z

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> @Konstantin: would it be OK for your future Bugzilla bot to deal with
> the generic "Link:" tag instead of the specific "Closes:" one?

Yes and no -- we can easily figure out that "it's a bugzilla link and it
points at this bug", but we can't make any decisions based on it. Just because
it's a bug that is mentioned in a commit doesn't really mean that the bug is
fixed and we should close it.

E.g. it could be something like:

foo: initial workaround for bar

This implements a workaround for problems with bar (see bug link below).
It's not a complete fix, so further work is required to address all issues
identified in the bug report.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5551212

It would be wrong here to auto-close this bug, but we can certainly add a new
comment that says:

This bug was mentioned in commit abcd1234:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/abcd1234

-K