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Wysocki" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:09:02 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AS18NWAFhctPMtjGW770Heavjb_9vFjMqmeBX72nxj5knK8XnVmT-yAxXOkg_EQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: Replacing Link trailers To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Doug Anderson , James Bottomley , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , dan.j.williams@intel.com, "ksummit@lists.linux.dev" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:31=E2=80=AFAM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Vlastimil, > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 10:44, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > On 10/17/25 04:27, Doug Anderson wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:09=E2=80=AFPM James Bottomley > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Since Linus' intervention this may be unnecessary, > > > > > > Thanks to a tip from LWN, connecting this thread to the other > > > centithread on Link tags. Presumably this is what James meant about > > > "Linus' intervention"? > > > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=3Dwj5MATvT-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1k= RfhtzuyBSpTKR+=3DVtw@mail.gmail.com/ > > > > > > As per standard Linux practices, please don't submit anything to > > > "Documentation" about this. Anyone who needs to know should be able t= o > > > find the current policy about Link: tags in the middle of a random > > > centithread. ;-) "Use the , Luke." ;-) > > > > The documentation has existed for a while in > > Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst > > > > You can also use ``Link:`` trailers to indicate the origin of the > > patch when applying it to your git tree. In that case, please use th= e > > dedicated ``patch.msgid.link`` domain instead of ``lore.kernel.org``= . > > This practice makes it possible for automated tooling to identify > > which link to use to retrieve the original patch submission. For > > example:: > > > > Link: https://patch.msgid.link/patch-source-message-id@here > > > > Since that file is strictly speaking about the tip tree, it would make = sense > > to promote it to something more generic? > > That existed, too, but was removed in commit 944df7a31452f75b ("docs: > update the guidance for Link: tags") in v6.18-rc1. That commit carries > a non-clickable Message-ID:-tag instead, and does not apply to Chinese > readers ;-) So I guess it can be restored in a more generic form (maybe along with some specific examples of what that information is used for), but instead of saying "In that case, please use the dedicated ``patch.msgid.link`` domain instead of ``lore.kernel.org``", I would say "In that case, the dedicated ``patch.msgid.link`` domain must be used instead of ``lore.kernel.org``".