On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:23:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And - once again - I want to complain about the "Link:" in that commit. I have to say that for me (probably for others as well) those Link tags pointing to the patch submission have quite some value: 1) First of all it is an easy proof that the patch was actually submitted somewhere for public review before it went into a maintainers tree. 2) The patch submission is often the entry point to the discussion which lead to this patch. From that email I can see what was discussed and often there is even a link to previous versions and the discussions that happened there. It helps to better understand how a patch came to be the way it is. I know this should ideally be part of the commit message, but in reality this is what I also use the link tag for. 3) When backporting a patch to a downstream kernel it often helps a lot to see the whole patch-set the change was submitted in, especially when it comes to fixes. With the Link: tag the whole submission thread is easy to find. I can stop adding them to patches if you want, but as I said, I think there is some value in them which make me want to keep them. Regards, Joerg
