On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 04:10:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

> So I agree in a lot of cases Link tag is going to be useless. OTOH I'm
> willing to put up with the useless Link tag for the cases where it does
> help - e.g. multiple times I'm been chasing mailing lists to find out
> what's the latest posted version of some patch and what other patches are
> in the series so that I could backport them as well. And the Link tag would
> help with this or even make it possible to automate this to some extent...

The other thing with the link tag is that if we can automate generating
it it doesn't really cost us anything - it's going to be more effort to
decide if it's useful than it is to just add it unconditionally.