Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainers: suggest including lore link for conflicts known to linux-next

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Jul 14 2023 - 11:44:30 EST


On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:16:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:47:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > You can point to the email that Stephen sent (using lore), or you can
> > quote his resolution (or your own, if you do a test-merge, like many
> > people do) if you want. It's not a requirement.
>
> Yeah, I normally do my own test merge. I might check to see if it's
> the same as the one which is in linux-next, but the more importantly,
> I then run a full set of regression tests and make sure there are no
> new test failures caused by the merge resolution.

Alright, I guess we all end up intuiting in a similar way :)
In this case let's ditch the patch, it may do more harm than good.
Someone may read it as "if Stephen posted something - just point
at it without thinking".