On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:10:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 6:30 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Links to other random places don't serve that function. > > What "function"? > > This is my argument. Those Link: things need to have a *reason*. > > Saying "they are a change ID" is not a reason. That's just a random > word-salad. You need to have an active reason that you can explain, > not just say "look, I want to add a message ID to every commit". So I want to go to my inbox and compare the patch as received with what is in my tree. What did I change? And I tweak both the patch content when applying and the subject so these are not good indicators. Is this at all convincing? -- MST
