linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: update the guidance for Link: tags

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbbzV=ximWZkkfNiGpdCRCkB=--x818ikf0APdQo=5J3w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 21:48:01 +0200
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: update the guidance for Link: tags

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> As stated definitively by Linus, the use of Link: tags should be limited to
> situations where there is additional useful information to be found at the
> far end of the link.  Update our documentation to reflect that policy, and
> to remove the suggestion for a Git hook to add those tags automatically.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh5AyuvEhNY9a57v-vwyr7EkPVRUKMPwj92yF_K0dJHVg@mail.gmail.com/
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>

Fair enough,
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij