Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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MST