From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mie@igel.co.jp
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 05:03:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220516045821-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgnYGY=10sRDzXCC2bmappjBTRNNbr8owvGLEW-xuV7Vw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:10:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 6:30 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > Links to other random places don't serve that function.
>
> What "function"?
>
> This is my argument. Those Link: things need to have a *reason*.
>
> Saying "they are a change ID" is not a reason. That's just a random
> word-salad. You need to have an active reason that you can explain,
> not just say "look, I want to add a message ID to every commit".
So I want to go to my inbox and compare the patch as received with what
is in my tree. What did I change? And I tweak both the patch content
when applying and the subject so these are not good indicators. Is this
at all convincing?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-16 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-10 12:23 [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-10 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-10 23:12 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-05-10 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-11 7:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-11 12:51 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-05-11 13:40 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-11 16:31 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-05-12 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-05-11 17:35 ` Dave Taht
2022-05-11 6:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-11 10:12 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-11 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-12 13:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-12 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-12 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-13 14:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-05-13 17:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-16 9:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2022-05-11 12:24 ` Jörg Rödel
2022-05-13 12:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-10 18:31 ` pr-tracker-bot
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