Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link:

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:35:19 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> From: Kai Wasserbäch <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Encourage patch authors to link to reports by issuing a warning, if
> a Reported-by: is not accompanied by a link to the report. Those links
> are often extremely useful for any code archaeologist that wants to know
> more about the backstory of a change than the commit message provides.
> That includes maintainers higher up in the patch-flow hierarchy, which
> is why Linus asks developers to add such links [1, 2, 3]. To quote [1]:

Is it okay if we exclude syzbot reports from this rule?
If full syzbot report ID is provided - it's as good as a link. 
And regression tracking doesn't seem to happen much on syzbot 
reports either.

I like the addition otherwise, it's already catching missing links 
in netdev land!