Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] vdpa: Add suspend operation

Dan Carpenter
2022-08-11T10:15:57Z

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:27:32AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 07:15:09PM +0200, Eugenio Pérez wrote:
> > This operation is optional: It it's not implemented, backend feature bit
> > will not be exposed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
> > Message-Id: <20220623160738.632852-2-eperezma@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
> What is this message id doing here?
>

I like the Message-Id tag. It means you can `b4 mbox <mesg-id>` and get
the thread.

Linus has complained (rough remembering) that everyone is using the
Link: tag for links to the patch itself. It's supposed to be for Links
to bugzilla or to the spec or whatever. Extra information, too much to
put in the commit message. Now the Link tag is useless because it either
points to the patch or to a bugzilla. Depend on what you want it to do,
it *always* points to the opposite thing.

But I can't remember what people settled on as the alternative to use
to link to lore...

In theory, we should be able to figure out the link to lore automatically
and there have been a couple projects which tried to do this but they
can't make it work 100%. Maintainers massage and reformat the patches
too much before applying them.

regards,
dan carpenter