Re: Link: tag and links to submission and reports (was: Re: [GIT pull] core/urgent for v5.18-rc6)

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:37:35AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> - The problem is when the discussion happened somewhere and the patch
> got submitted separately. I can't think of a good way to automate
> that so we have to pay attention and fix the link tag by hand and add
> the relevant one. And I try to do that when I'm especially awake when
> applying the patch.

I would argue that it should be the patch submitter's responsibility
to explicitly add a URL to the problem report.  In some cases this
might be a pointer to a bug tracking system; in other cases it might
be a URL to lore.kernel.org.

					- Ted