On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:54:05PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 05:48:57PM +0000, Michael Matz wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > > > > > The idea is that the [...] part is NOT part of the commit, only part of > > > the email. > > > > I understand that, but the subject line of this thread says "e-mail > > subject lines", so I thought we were talking about, well, exactly that; > > and I see no value of these tags in e-mails either. > > In email, they do carry information that is useful there, the distinction > whether a patch has been committed already and doesn't need review from > others, or whether it is a patch intended for patch review, or just a RFC > patch that is not yet ready for review, but submitter is looking for some > feedback.
It's irrelevant whether a patch is committed or not whather it needs review, imnsho :-) "rfc" is useful, certainly. It makes clear that the sender would like some help, and/or that the subject might be controversial, both things that have more time pressure than most. Segher
