Commit 9547c706 authored by Josh Triplett's avatar Josh Triplett Committed by Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: add recommendation for mailing list references

SubmittingPatches already mentions referencing bugs fixed by a commit,
but doesn't mention citing relevant mailing list discussions.  Add a
note to that effect, along with a recommendation to use the
https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector.

Portions based on text from git's SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 74a475ac
......@@ -112,7 +112,15 @@ to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
its behaviour.
If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by
number and URL.
number and URL. If the patch follows from a mailing list discussion,
give a URL to the mailing list archive; use the https://lkml.kernel.org/
redirector with a Message-Id, to ensure that the links cannot become
stale.
However, try to make your explanation understandable without external
resources. In addition to giving a URL to a mailing list archive or
bug, summarize the relevant points of the discussion that led to the
patch as submitted.
If you want to refer to a specific commit, don't just refer to the
SHA-1 ID of the commit. Please also include the oneline summary of
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