linux/Documentation/process
Thorsten Leemhuis 1f57bd42b7 docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit
Mention the 'Link' tag in the section about adding URLs to the commit
msg, to make it clearer they "_primarily_ [...] should be about
background", as Linus recently stated (see the link below). That makes
the explanation also easier to find with a text search. For the same
reason and to improve comprehensibility provide an example, too.

Slightly improve the text at the same time to make it more obvious
developers are meant to add links to issue reports in mailing list
archives, as those allow regression tracking efforts to automatically
check which bugs got resolved.

Move the section also downwards slightly, to reduce jumping back and
forth between aspects relevant for the top and the bottom part of the
commit msg.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgBhyLhQLPem1vybKNt7BKP+=qF=veBgc7VirZaXn4FUw@mail.gmail.com/
CC: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/27105768dc19b395e7c8e7a80d056d1ff9c570d0.1635152553.git.linux@leemhuis.info
[jc: tweaked wording following Konstantin's recommendation]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-28 13:53:47 -06:00
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1.Intro.rst doc:it_IT: add some process/* translations 2018-11-20 09:11:12 -07:00
2.Process.rst Documentation: process: step 2: Link to email list fixed. 2020-09-03 10:31:03 -06:00
3.Early-stage.rst Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation 2020-06-08 09:30:19 -06:00
4.Coding.rst doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line 2021-02-22 13:59:10 -07:00
5.Posting.rst docs: Clarify the usage and sign-off requirements for Co-developed-by 2019-03-25 10:30:32 -06:00
6.Followthrough.rst
7.AdvancedTopics.rst Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation 2020-06-08 09:30:19 -06:00
8.Conclusion.rst Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation 2020-06-08 09:30:19 -06:00
adding-syscalls.rst docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent 2021-02-04 14:47:24 -07:00
applying-patches.rst Documentation/process/applying-patches: Activate linux-next man hyperlink 2021-08-20 11:10:12 -06:00
botching-up-ioctls.rst Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/process 2020-06-26 11:19:43 -06:00
changes.rst Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1 2021-09-13 10:18:28 -07:00
clang-format.rst Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories 2020-12-03 15:55:04 -07:00
code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst
code-of-conduct.rst Code of Conduct: Change the contact email address 2018-10-22 07:33:36 +01:00
coding-style.rst coding-style.rst: trivial: fix location of driver model macros 2021-10-26 09:39:49 -06:00
deprecated.rst docs: deprecated.rst: Clarify open-coded arithmetic with literals 2021-10-26 09:43:54 -06:00
development-process.rst
email-clients.rst Documentation/process: expand plain-text advice 2020-09-03 15:39:01 -06:00
embargoed-hardware-issues.rst Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories 2020-12-03 15:55:04 -07:00
howto.rst docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting match practice 2021-01-18 12:29:38 -07:00
index.rst Documentation/process: Add maintainer handbooks section 2021-09-14 14:46:49 -06:00
kernel-docs.rst Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide 2021-08-20 17:05:45 -06:00
kernel-driver-statement.rst doc:it_IT: add some process/* translations 2018-11-20 09:11:12 -07:00
kernel-enforcement-statement.rst Documentation: drop optional BOMs 2021-05-10 15:17:34 -06:00
license-rules.rst LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
magic-number.rst tty: remove TTY_LDISC_MAGIC 2021-03-10 09:34:06 +01:00
maintainer-handbooks.rst Documentation/process: Add tip tree handbook 2021-09-14 14:46:49 -06:00
maintainer-pgp-guide.rst Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder 2021-08-24 13:23:21 -06:00
maintainer-tip.rst docs: use the lore redirector everywhere 2021-10-12 13:58:19 -06:00
maintainers.rst doc-rst: Programmatically render MAINTAINERS into ReST 2019-10-02 10:03:17 -06:00
management-style.rst Documentation: management-style: Fix formatting of emphsized word 2020-03-10 11:32:34 -06:00
programming-language.rst docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support 2020-10-05 09:44:11 -06:00
stable-api-nonsense.rst doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible 2019-02-01 16:19:11 -07:00
stable-kernel-rules.rst docs: networking: drop special stable handling 2021-03-03 08:49:08 -08:00
submit-checklist.rst doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line 2021-02-22 13:59:10 -07:00
submitting-drivers.rst docs: update file link location 2021-10-12 13:49:27 -06:00
submitting-patches.rst docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit 2021-10-28 13:53:47 -06:00
volatile-considered-harmful.rst Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation 2020-06-08 09:30:19 -06:00