On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> The "Link:" tag is unfortunately a bag of holding for all sorts of
> links. So if Linus interprets the "Link:" tag as a link to relevant
> URLs with an implied meaning "see also" or "more relevant info
> here", then whatever else gets added under "Link:" with a different
> purpose is seen as noise.

> One possible solution would be to introduce a new tag such as
> "Link-Origin: https://..." or just "Origin: https://..." or
> whatever better name we can collectively come up with.

> That way the semantic should be obvious to everyone.

As mentioned in other threads the goal with using patch.msgid.link as
the domain for the simple list archive links was basically that, to
provide an easy way to identify through simple inspection that this is
just a link to the original patch.  It does have the advantage of
already being fairly widely deployed.