On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:16:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:47:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > You can point to the email that Stephen sent (using lore), or you can > > quote his resolution (or your own, if you do a test-merge, like many > > people do) if you want. It's not a requirement. > > Yeah, I normally do my own test merge. I might check to see if it's > the same as the one which is in linux-next, but the more importantly, > I then run a full set of regression tests and make sure there are no > new test failures caused by the merge resolution. Alright, I guess we all end up intuiting in a similar way :) In this case let's ditch the patch, it may do more harm than good. Someone may read it as "if Stephen posted something - just point at it without thinking".