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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 08:55:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:50 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I would argue that it should be the patch submitter's responsibility
> > to explicitly add a URL to the problem report.
> 
> I agree in the perfect case.
> 
> But in practice, we have a lot more patch submitters than we have
> maintainers, and not all "leaf developers" necessarily know how to do
> everything.
> 
> So the maintainer should probably expect to fix things up. Not always,
> but also not a "the developer should have done this, so I won't do it"
> 
> This isn't so different from the fact that not everybody writes
> English proficiently - people do hopefully end up fixing things up as
> they get passed onwards.

And, in addition, what happens most often in my experience is I
constantly get to point submitters to our process documentation -
submitting-patches especially - as not a small number of them are not
aware of different aspects of the whole patch dance: tags, SOB chains,
etc. And the Link tag is no exception here.

So yeah, the maintainer is kinda the last one to make sure the patch
looks somewhat sane and documents the whole issue so that years from
now, it can still be understood what we were fixing there.

And I guess important part of that documentation is setting the proper
Link so...

And as said, yeah, we won't be perfect and catch all cases but at least
we can pay attention.

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    Boris.

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