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 32833257835 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:34:30 +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=1760178871; cv=none; b=UO+47gLl8DEpdHSpePw8tICaR5+Cpa2KRiu7j85gJkU+xuFXTam0xVcE+6pS3V98baSCHbbRGhzOJSbUAd45RdRhsO9MGcSdBQgt29ZXNahqNEoXnx0B1Y5XgpoHHgBuJTko8ZADJC7Ao0/S2B0uK5WhXpQOkXVajHcVr70tO8I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760178871; c=relaxed/simple; bh=G8y5rOU05/09Kg4N/I/76nl4CQhXWvFTbR1z4cPJvl0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FBDq0nMsxA3UyNQjKR1+CN81gh01OAKpaTwSG6kFFWNQ7t5OttZOF5FwAaL5atcGk8UeP1e2d1wl89EHSUtf26LkfzBEEqgfaGITOGFkbRnGBp9nZjwbMdf38EEvCoECOMa/OmAZ70wChdlXUwGlWVIY07mZdFKCs0B+v2d5MXE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=zBcsiXvA; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="zBcsiXvA" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id DF448C116B1; Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72C5CC4CEF4; Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1760178870; bh=G8y5rOU05/09Kg4N/I/76nl4CQhXWvFTbR1z4cPJvl0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=zBcsiXvAw0m/h8ulmsO7/BW8TlwvbZi3HBH1W2e6KGpJRu1frRnBqwnL/1P3dOq6o ONSu81gGiKtRaYNVhBSdaE+/vZD8AcYHqiIaiHAS7ZVm/bZi3Yymeej2Pi0rfo7eiX bUtFCtgG0sY8eF00hKmLvfsJbeUgYJCrGPSs6LNE= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:34:26 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Konstantin Ryabitsev Cc: Lee Jones , tools@kernel.org Subject: Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression Message-ID: <2025101155-coauthor-backboned-e90b@gregkh> 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> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251010-feathered-pastoral-woodpecker-de863d@lemur> 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. thanks, greg k-h