Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Vlastimil,

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 10:44, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> On 10/17/25 04:27, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> 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-=wj5MATvT-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1kRfhtzuyBSpTKR+=Vtw@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 to
> > find the current policy about Link: tags in the middle of a random
> > centithread. ;-) "Use the <mailing lists>, 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 the
>    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 ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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