From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E66EE2EA75C for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761045934; cv=none; b=gKB9A0u06t5Pwjumqa076OO6soj929j5uMATrDGsaQRXMEkloOgJLhnIeLEonDIrGGspiA5Fybo1QZlcK1qOWlyPY6CstriwWcldmQfRq0bGW0PyE3FMQcPVcHsBlT3URbbOevEZ77s/p3h777A9NVbiJTnzRh3aAx3BXNl/TOc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761045934; c=relaxed/simple; bh=o4ASKWF+pLWMy/e3y3FyO07b3bFCcSZu10t5LafXjN8=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=eYx74UNw5EaUs++YZkQ4E8tRYRshNeDSdYS8FsttlOWNX89sYX68+tCltm0lBzmMMCdP3DgVth827oFszwd0h5VjKV8JDoNXJLGaQyraX+Pph5Va8tGCpkagtGt7cL6Iw7ZM74EJDWsFIpmZfsntO+UykHnsP80935yed7lSHYg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Uz9NvFp6; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Uz9NvFp6" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 97CCEC4CEF5; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C646C4CEF1; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:25:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761045933; bh=o4ASKWF+pLWMy/e3y3FyO07b3bFCcSZu10t5LafXjN8=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=Uz9NvFp6V1JrMXY4Z7I3sKFtmo0+c8g4UJ25R3qmI8hKD/Wi0YYKwtGVTesG/YE+0 HbVVG/GvMozatm5axbvJ+EVnbHkpyVaJ+q+SQT1oXC50Y2+u21Sy/vHBtdMxRcknEc HBKeHCfFPjl3sf0U329t7E9uuNag5kUPTQJzaZ3x8JZ/8wwFknJ0VqCYvksmN9ahw1 xRMvcg29mYiJB8A36Bqbit6gjzd7fi6APSohxv4J21HKzYj/osfrIaNoffbgxQLiVh 7m8ZODz7+37hhvi7ZLC1x40Wr7ozf54yniXSfp7aAWEsUuxZ137V2S9XiBSPvT3FiM G/FIBQ1xN4P2g== Message-ID: <08cb2b99-187e-46e5-8921-bbadd2a66636@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:25:30 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression Content-Language: en-US To: Lee Jones , Greg KH Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , tools@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds References: <20251009151349.GB2890766@google.com> <20251009-remarkable-charming-pogona-fd7a8f@lemur> <20251010080324.GC2988639@google.com> <20251010-mauve-dolphin-of-apotheosis-a1cbdf@lemur> <20251010143452.GH2988639@google.com> <20251010-feathered-pastoral-woodpecker-de863d@lemur> <2025101155-coauthor-backboned-e90b@gregkh> <20251021105645.GE475031@google.com> From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" In-Reply-To: <20251021105645.GE475031@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/21/25 12:56, Lee Jones wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >> > > > Next question is -- have you recently stopped adding Link: tags to your >> > > > commits? :) >> > > >> > > Oooo, yes! Yes, I have! >> > > >> > > Why would that make a difference? >> > >> > When patches have been altered by the maintainer, we can no longer match them >> > by git-patch-id. >> >> Which is the primary reason to keep the Link: stuff. Many maintainers >> manually change patches to fix up minor things all the time, and without >> the Link: it's a major pain to find (the LF sponsored a whole project >> just to do the backwards mapping for many years, but no one used it...) >> >> > In the past, when we found a Link: trailer, we could still >> > match their provenance by message-id, but if that is gone, we can no longer >> > fall back to that. I am working on making the "ty" mechanism being less >> > dependent on that -- hopefully the master branch should become more useful to >> > you again in the near future. >> >> message-id is important to track somehow, we need that link. > > It turns out that going back to manually thanking contributors is too > much of a regression for me ATM. For now at least, against Linus' > wishes (sadly), I'm putting Link:s back in. Linus later said he would tolerate them with the https://patch.msgid.link domain: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wj5MATvT-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1kRfhtzuyBSpTKR+=Vtw@mail.gmail.com/