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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 1/4] vdpa: Add suspend operation
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 01:15:08PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:27:32AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 07:15:09PM +0200, Eugenio Pérez wrote:
> > > This operation is optional: It it's not implemented, backend feature bit
> > > will not be exposed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
> > > Message-Id: <20220623160738.632852-2-eperezma@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> >
> > What is this message id doing here?
> >
>
> I like the Message-Id tag. It means you can `b4 mbox <mesg-id>` and get
> the thread.

Yes it makes sense in git. But I don't see what it does in this patch
posted to the list. It seems to refer to the previous version of the
patch here. Which is ok I guess but better called out e.g.

Previous-version: <20220623160738.632852-2-eperezma@redhat.com>


> Linus has complained (rough remembering) that everyone is using the
> Link: tag for links to the patch itself. It's supposed to be for Links
> to bugzilla or to the spec or whatever. Extra information, too much to
> put in the commit message. Now the Link tag is useless because it either
> points to the patch or to a bugzilla. Depend on what you want it to do,
> it *always* points to the opposite thing.
>
> But I can't remember what people settled on as the alternative to use
> to link to lore...
>
> In theory, we should be able to figure out the link to lore automatically
> and there have been a couple projects which tried to do this but they
> can't make it work 100%. Maintainers massage and reformat the patches
> too much before applying them.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter

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