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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Cc: "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>,
	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@canonical.com>,
	"Dwaipayan Ray" <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
	"Lukas Bulwahn" <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	"Kai Wasserbäch" <kai@dev.carbon-project.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link:
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 20:46:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230301204602.5e9bf3c0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb5dfd55ea2026303ab2296f4a6df3da7dd64006.1674217480.git.linux@leemhuis.info>

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:35:19 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> From: Kai Wasserbäch <kai@dev.carbon-project.org>
> 
> Encourage patch authors to link to reports by issuing a warning, if
> a Reported-by: is not accompanied by a link to the report. Those links
> are often extremely useful for any code archaeologist that wants to know
> more about the backstory of a change than the commit message provides.
> That includes maintainers higher up in the patch-flow hierarchy, which
> is why Linus asks developers to add such links [1, 2, 3]. To quote [1]:

Is it okay if we exclude syzbot reports from this rule?
If full syzbot report ID is provided - it's as good as a link. 
And regression tracking doesn't seem to happen much on syzbot 
reports either.

I like the addition otherwise, it's already catching missing links 
in netdev land!

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-04 11:33 [PATCH 0/2] feat: checkpatch: prohibit Buglink: and warn about missing Link: Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-04 11:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] feat: checkpatch: error on usage of a Buglink tag in the commit log Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-04 11:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] feat: checkpatch: Warn about Reported-by: not being followed by a Link: Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-08 19:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-08 19:58   ` Joe Perches
2022-12-09  9:33     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-09 16:57       ` Joe Perches
2022-12-08 19:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link: Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-08 20:21   ` Joe Perches
2022-12-08 21:11     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-08 21:34       ` Joe Perches
2022-12-09  8:33         ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-09  9:54     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-09 17:00       ` Joe Perches
2022-12-15 14:43 ` [PATCH 0/3, v3] feat: checkpatch: warn about dicouraged link tags and missing links Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-15 14:43   ` [PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-15 14:43   ` [PATCH 2/3] checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link: Kai Wasserbäch
2022-12-15 18:00     ` Joe Perches
2022-12-18 14:54       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-15 14:43   ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: use proper way for show problematic line Kai Wasserbäch
2023-01-20 12:35 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] checkpatch.pl: warn about discouraged tags and missing Link: tags Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-01-20 12:35   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-02-27 13:25     ` Matthieu Baerts
2023-03-02  5:36       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-01-20 12:35   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link: Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-03-02  4:46     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-03-02  5:17       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-03-02  5:40         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-02  8:27           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2023-03-02  9:04             ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-03-02  9:11               ` Dmitry Vyukov
2023-03-02  9:48                 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-03-03  2:10                   ` Andrew Morton
2023-03-06  8:53                     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2023-03-07 11:36                       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-01-20 12:35   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] checkpatch: use proper way for show problematic line Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-01-20 15:20   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] checkpatch.pl: warn about discouraged tags and missing Link: tags Joe Perches

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