Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 02:46:31PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> >> All the other arguments seem just disingenuous in that they literally
>> >> give less useful information than "b4 dig" does.
>> >
>> > Wow, I hadn't heard of "b4 dig" and it doesn't appear to have landed
>> > yet. ...but I searched and it was easy to find a reference. I'll check
>> > it out. Oh, it's using AI. I guess my suggestion that we should use AI
>> > to solve this problem was more on point than I realized. ;-) ;-) ;-)
>> >
>> > OK, I found Sasha's RFC [1].
>>
>> You found the wrong one. See this one:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251010-muscular-camel-of-acumen-00eeaf@lemur/
>>
>> But if your point was to demonstrate how searching for a subject can lead to
>> the wrong outcome, good job :)
>
>Crap, that's funny. Yeah, all the top Google searches for "b4 dig" are
>all for Sasha's tool. Konstantin's patch, while landed, isn't in the
>most recent "versioned" b4 release (v0.14.3), so I didn't see it.
>...and yes, it does somewhat prove the point that just trying to match
>on "subject" can be dangerous. I've run into the issue where lore
>pages don't seem to be consistently findable in Google in the past and
>I guess it struck again...

Right - I tried solving a slightly different problem: I don't necessarily care
about the original posting, but I care a lot about any discussions around a
commit (whether they're in the same thread as the submission or a completely
different thread that happen prior to the submission).

So while we can use fuzzy logic like the one "b4 dig" uses, "b4 ai dig" tries
to take it one step further and mine the mailing list for more related
information.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha