linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] irq cleanups for .39

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Message-ID: <20110329190340.GA29565@gere.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:03:40 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] irq cleanups for .39

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:55:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 03:05 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>> 2) msg ids are unique and can ge grepped for. also there are archives
> >>>    which allow searching for them.
> >>>
> >>>    http://marc.info?i=alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@...alhost6.localdomain6
> >>>
> >>>    http://mid.gmane.org/alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@localhost6.localdomain6
> >>
> >> So perhaps we should add one of those into the LKML-Reference and let
> >> the commit bot extract the thread reference from there.
> > 
> > Yes. That would make it something usable to normal users.
> > 
> 
> My concern with that is that indexing services come and go (and which
> ones that offer indexing by message-id, which is the *only* permanent
> identifier, are even more subject to change), but things that go into
> the git history stays forever.  In IETF terms, the message-id is the
> "resource name" (as in URN), as opposed to the "resource locator" (as in
> URL).
> 
> There is of course the option of running a bounce service on kernel.org,
> as long as the Message-ID is included.

Yes, this would be very useful. For example, marc.info can do something
like that; you simply go and do

http://marc.info/?i=<message-id>

and it finds you the mail messages with that id it has indexed. You can
then browse the whole thread from there.

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