Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 05:15:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > There is this Linux Plumbers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
> > And the pdf: http://pdxplumbers.osuosl.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1653/original/LPC%20-%20User%20Threading.pdf
> > 
> > I did not reference them in the patchset because links to sites other
> > than kernel.org are strongly discouraged... I will definitely add a
> > documentation patch.
> 
> Certainly for links to email, we prefer to use lore.kernel.org archives.
> Are links to other sites discouraged?  If so, that's news to me.

Discouraged in so far as that when an email solely references external
resources and doesn't bother to summarize or otherwise recap the
contents in the email proper; I'll ignore the whole thing.

Basically, if I have to click a link to figure out basic information of
a patch series, the whole thing is a fail and goes into the bit bucket.

That said; I have no objection against having links, as long as they're
not used to convey the primary information that _should_ be in the
cover letter and/or changelogs.