Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] printk: Console owner and waiter logic cleanup

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:04:07 +0100
Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed 2018-01-17 11:18:56, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (01/16/18 10:45), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > [..]  
> > > > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=145692016122716  
> > > 
> > > Especially since Konstantin is working on pulling in all LKML archives,
> > > the above should be denoted as:
> > > 
> > >  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201603022101.CAH73907.OVOOMFHFFtQJSL%20()%20I-love%20!%20SAKURA%20!%20ne%20!%20jp  
> > 
> > hm, may I ask why? is there a new rule now to percent-encode commit messages?  
> 
> IMHO, the most important thing is that Steven's link is based
> on the Message-ID and the stable redirector
> https://lkml.kernel.org/. It has a better chance to work
> even in the future.

Exactly. There's an effort to avoid any outside link dependencies in
the Linux git history. No one expected gmane to end (although it
appears to be making a comeback), but we don't want to get stuck if
marc.info disappears one day.

> > > 
> > > Should we Cc stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?  
> > 
> > that's a good question... maybe yes, maybe no... I'd say this
> > change is "safer" when we have hand-off.  
> 
> I would keep it as is in stable kernels unless there are
> many bug reports.

Agreed.

-- Steve