From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752506AbaBVXFH (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:05:07 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:37941 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752287AbaBVXFF (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:05:05 -0500 Message-ID: <53092D19.7000306@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:04:57 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Triplett CC: Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov , Rob Landley , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] SubmittingPatches: Add recommendation for mailing list references References: <6f68169828300d32c4266a6d68c5fcf272dfea33.1393099913.git.josh@joshtriplett.org> <02737d618daecb42e33308ce5dabd53ed3cf14f3.1393099913.git.josh@joshtriplett.org> <53091D26.4020900@infradead.org> <20140222223038.GA4643@thin> In-Reply-To: <20140222223038.GA4643@thin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/22/2014 02:30 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:56:54PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 02/22/2014 12:12 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> SubmittingPatches already mentions referencing bugs fixed by a commit, >>> but doesn't mention citing relevant mailing list discussions. Add a >>> note to that effect, along with a recommendation to use the >>> https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector. >>> >>> Portions based on text from git's SubmittingPatches. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett >>> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov >>> --- >>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 +++++++++- >>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> index c74e73c..53e6590 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> @@ -112,7 +112,15 @@ to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change >>> its behaviour. >>> >>> If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by >>> -number and URL. >>> +number and URL. If the patch follows from a mailing list discussion, >>> +give a URL to the mailing list archive; use the https://lkml.kernel.org/ >>> +redirector with a Message-Id, to ensure that the links cannot become >>> +stale. >> >> Some of us don't know what that looks like. >> Could we have an example? > > https://lkml.kernel.org/ provides examples; I didn't want to duplicate > that documentation. Thanks, I didn't know that and wouldn't normally look there to see if it provides examples, so you could do like Boris suggested... :) -- ~Randy