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On Wed, 28 May 2014, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:44:41PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
> > > There's a world of difference between thanking people for review and a
> > > detailed account of all the changes made in every single iteration of
> > > the review.
> 
> > This is already covered in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Quoting
> > lines 585-592 (see last sentence):
> 
> Right, but Daniel is proposing lifting that above the --- and including
> it in git.

What you really want is:

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/MESSAGE_ID_OF_PATCH

It's way more useful than any of the v1-n writeups, which are most of
the time just a completely waste of electrons. Even if written well,
without the actual review context they are pretty pointless.

Thanks,

	tglx