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

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 10:48:22 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > We can parse out our hash from any tag, but the problem is that the
> > current email api we use, does not allow to specify Message-ID before
> > sending, so we don't know it when generating the text.
> > We don't even know it after sending, the API is super simple:
> > https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/appengine/mail
> > So we don't know what the lore link will be...
> 
> That's... unfortunate, as from my understanding of things that would be
> the most important "Link:" to have in any patches that fix issues report
> by syzbot. But well, that's how it is for now. In that case I'd vote for
> this:
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/b/cafecafecaca0cafecafe

As you previously mentioned, patch preparers should also include
the lore link so any followup discussion is easily located.