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[209.85.222.41]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ada2fe7eead31-5d5fc927cf3sm7152857137.15.2025.10.17.02.22.05 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ua1-f41.google.com with SMTP id a1e0cc1a2514c-93106c58173so453217241.1 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:22:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCUM9ZYiNiA7RZ/SeCPmu5Ri6YBN3NsbaabXbHg18LKMxmmpZG3qqOAaDVeZL6Yk5ajWE3Vhk1MV@lists.linux.dev X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:390a:b0:5d5:f6ae:38de with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-5d7dd6ba33emr1116812137.41.1760692925392; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <68ee73dcd10ee_2f89910075@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch> <2025101448-overtake-mortality-99c8@gregkh> <68efd54da845e_2f89910071@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch> <20251015-versed-active-silkworm-bb87bd@lemur> <2025101631-foyer-wages-8458@gregkh> <892a58917795bf5d29394bb5123dae2a6615ca08.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <2025101639-thwarting-press-f0f7@gregkh> <20251016-vehement-kittiwake-of-joy-d6db8e@lemur> <5f668197447a5eb5036199c8c95e9dcae723190e.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <89263430-4b2d-4992-a2fa-cef7f1e7b556@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <89263430-4b2d-4992-a2fa-cef7f1e7b556@suse.cz> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:21:54 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AS18NWCVLwFkuSgSvD5ASgppKaAKWEI-lge2PZwbdhxlAPVlahlWq8d3x9pbOLU Message-ID: Subject: Re: Replacing Link trailers To: Vlastimil Babka Cc: 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 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-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1kRf= htzuyBSpTKR+=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 to > > 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 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 se= nse > 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 --=20 Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds