linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs & checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links

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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:56:37 -0400
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs & checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> @Konstantin: would it be OK for your future Bugzilla bot to deal with
> the generic "Link:" tag instead of the specific "Closes:" one?

Yes and no -- we can easily figure out that "it's a bugzilla link and it
points at this bug", but we can't make any decisions based on it. Just because
it's a bug that is mentioned in a commit doesn't really mean that the bug is
fixed and we should close it.

E.g. it could be something like:

    foo: initial workaround for bar

    This implements a workaround for problems with bar (see bug link below).
    It's not a complete fix, so further work is required to address all issues
    identified in the bug report.

    Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5551212

It would be wrong here to auto-close this bug, but we can certainly add a new
comment that says:

    This bug was mentioned in commit abcd1234:
    https://git.kernel.org/linus/abcd1234

-K