Re: Replacing Link trailers

On 10/17/25 04:27, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM James Bottomley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Since Linus' intervention this may be unnecessary,
> 
> Thanks to a tip from LWN, connecting this thread to the other
> centithread on Link tags. Presumably this is what James meant about
> "Linus' intervention"?
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wj5MATvT-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1kRfhtzuyBSpTKR+=Vtw@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> As per standard Linux practices, please don't submit anything to
> "Documentation" about this. Anyone who needs to know should be able to
> find the current policy about Link: tags in the middle of a random
> centithread. ;-) "Use the <mailing lists>, Luke." ;-)

The documentation has existed for a while in
Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst

   You can also use ``Link:`` trailers to indicate the origin of the
   patch when applying it to your git tree. In that case, please use the
   dedicated ``patch.msgid.link`` domain instead of ``lore.kernel.org``.
   This practice makes it possible for automated tooling to identify
   which link to use to retrieve the original patch submission. For
   example::

     Link: https://patch.msgid.link/patch-source-message-id@here

Since that file is strictly speaking about the tip tree, it would make sense
to promote it to something more generic?


> -Doug
>