linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: suggest adding previous version links

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Message-ID: <87v7hecss0.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:53:19 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: suggest adding previous
 version links

SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org> writes:

> For review of patches that revisioned multiple times, patch changelogs
> are very useful.  Adding actual links to the previous versions can
> further help the review.  Using such links, reviewers can double check
> the changelog by themselves, and find previous discussions.  Nowadays
> having such links (e.g., lore.kernel.org archive links) is easy and
> reliable.  Suggest adding such links if available.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index 9a509f1a6873..e69d19ad658f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -805,7 +805,8 @@ not part of the changelog which gets committed to the git tree. It is
>  additional information for the reviewers. If it's placed above the
>  commit tags, it needs manual interaction to remove it. If it is below
>  the separator line, it gets automatically stripped off when applying the
> -patch::
> +patch.  If available, adding links to previous versions of the patch (e.g.,
> +lore.kernel.org archive link) is recommended to help reviewers::
>  
>    <commit message>
>    ...
> @@ -814,6 +815,9 @@ patch::
>    V2 -> V3: Removed redundant helper function
>    V1 -> V2: Cleaned up coding style and addressed review comments
>  
> +  v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bar
> +  v1: https://lore.kernel.org/foo
> +

Applied, thanks.

jon