On 02/22/2014 02:30 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:56:54PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 02/22/2014 12:12 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> SubmittingPatches already mentions referencing bugs fixed by a commit, >>> but doesn't mention citing relevant mailing list discussions. Add a >>> note to that effect, along with a recommendation to use the >>> https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector. >>> >>> Portions based on text from git's SubmittingPatches. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 +++++++++- >>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> index c74e73c..53e6590 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> @@ -112,7 +112,15 @@ to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change >>> its behaviour. >>> >>> If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by >>> -number and URL. >>> +number and URL. If the patch follows from a mailing list discussion, >>> +give a URL to the mailing list archive; use the https://lkml.kernel.org/ >>> +redirector with a Message-Id, to ensure that the links cannot become >>> +stale. >> >> Some of us don't know what that looks like. >> Could we have an example? > > https://lkml.kernel.org/ provides examples; I didn't want to duplicate > that documentation. Thanks, I didn't know that and wouldn't normally look there to see if it provides examples, so you could do like Boris suggested... :) -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
