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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:20:33 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
Peter Geis <pgwipeout@...il.com>, zhouzhouyi@...il.com,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>, linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] printk: Block console kthreads when direct printing
will be required
On Wed 2022-06-15 10:47:14, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 9:28 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
> >
> > BugLink: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610205038.GA3050413@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1
> > BugLink: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMdYzYpF4FNTBPZsEFeWRuEwSies36QM_As8osPWZSr2q-viEA@mail.gmail.com
>
> Other thread discussion about this exact thing:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgzRUT1fBpuz3xcN+YdsX0SxqOzHWRtj0ReHpUBb5TKbA@mail.gmail.com/
>
> please stop making up random tags that make no sense.
>
> Just use "Link:"
>
> Look at that first one (I didn't even bother following the second
> one). The "bug" part is not even the most important part.
>
> The reason to follow that link is all the discussion, the test-patch,
> and the confirmation from Paul that "yup, that patch solves the
> problem for me".
>
> It's extra context to the commit, in case somebody wants to know the
> history. The "bug" part is (and always should be) already explained in
> the commit message, there's absolutely no point in adding soem extra
> noise to the "Link:" tag.
>
> And if the only reason for "BugLink:" to exist is to show "look, this
> tag actually contains relevant and interesting information", then the
> solution to THAT problem is to not have the links that are useless and
> pointless in the first place.
>
> Put another way: if you want to distinguish useless links from useful
> ones, just do it by not including the useless ones.
>
> Ok?
Got it! I am going to use "Link:" instead.
I just see how the discussion evolved at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgzRUT1fBpuz3xcN+YdsX0SxqOzHWRtj0ReHpUBb5TKbA@mail.gmail.com/
It is actually this exact discussion that confused me. I got the
impression that BugLink was a commonly used tag. I see that
I was too fast.
Thanks for stopping me.
Best Regards,
Petr
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