On Tue Sep 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM CEST, Jens Axboe wrote:
> As far as I can tell, only two things have been established here:
>
> 1) Linus hates the Link tags, except if they have extra information
> 2) Lots of other folks find them useful
>
> and hence we're at a solid deadlock here.
I find them useful too. For instance, I regularly use them when I come across a
patch, e.g. because it introduced a bug, and want to see the full context of
the entire patch series the patch originates from.
IIUC, the complaint about those links is mostly about not being distinguishable
from other links that have been added for a more specific reason.
I usually refer to additional links from the commit message by referencing them,
such that there is an obvious difference:
Link: ${URL}
vs.
Link: ${URL} [1]
However, for links that are automatically added and just point to the same patch
on lore, we could also just use a different tag in the future.
What about "Patch:"?
