The quilt patch titled Subject: submitting-patches.rst: suggest a Link: after Reported-by: has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was submitting-patchesrst-suggest-a-link-after-reported-by.patch This patch was dropped because it was withdrawn ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: submitting-patches.rst: suggest a Link: after Reported-by: Date: Thu Feb 23 05:41:49 PM PST 2023 It seems to be the new way and I find it super useful. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst~submitting-patchesrst-suggest-a-link-after-reported-by +++ a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -501,6 +501,12 @@ the bug was reported in private, then as Reported-by tag. The tag is intended for bugs; please do not use it to credit feature requests. +Where possible, please include a Link: to the report on the line +immediately following the Reported-by:. For example, + +Reported-by: John Doe <john.doe@xxxxxxxxx> + Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/02f796c7@xxxxxxxxx + A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in some environment) by the person named. This tag informs maintainers that some testing has been performed, provides a means to locate testers for _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-page_alloc-reduce-page-alloc-free-sanity-checks-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-userfaultfd-support-wp-on-multiple-vmas-fix.patch