Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> And we're taking it away because literally *one* person thinks that it
> adds irrelevant noise.
>
> [1] Sure, they can use 'b4 dig' if you pretend they all already know to
> use it.
>
> </rant>
>
> But seriously, why is this such a big thing? Linus is, in general,
> asking literally everyone else much much more to suit his ways in the
> kernel than "don't click the link if it starts with patch.msgid.link"

Right. I think this is why it bothers me so much. There are so many
people that are so passionate about wanting to keep the existing
"Link:" tag usage. ...and these are senior people who have been
contributing for years. "b4 dig" is nice and I'm happy it's being
created, but it still seems like it's not as good at some workflows
and adds needless imprecision/heuristics/AI when a "Link:" tag would
be precise.

It seems weird to discount all the senior people who find the existing
use of the "Link:" tag valuable when those that don't find it valuable
could just ignore it. "Doctor, it pains me when I click on the Link
tag, what should I do?" Answer: don't click on the "Link:" tag.

-Doug