Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:03:40 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] irq cleanups for .39 |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:55:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/28/2011 03:05 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >>> 2) msg ids are unique and can ge grepped for. also there are archives > >>> which allow searching for them. > >>> > >>> http://marc.info?i=alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@localhost6.localdomain6 > >>> > >>> http://mid.gmane.org/alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@localhost6.localdomain6 > >> > >> So perhaps we should add one of those into the LKML-Reference and let > >> the commit bot extract the thread reference from there. > > > > Yes. That would make it something usable to normal users. > > > > My concern with that is that indexing services come and go (and which > ones that offer indexing by message-id, which is the *only* permanent > identifier, are even more subject to change), but things that go into > the git history stays forever. In IETF terms, the message-id is the > "resource name" (as in URN), as opposed to the "resource locator" (as in > URL). > > There is of course the option of running a bounce service on kernel.org, > as long as the Message-ID is included.
Yes, this would be very useful. For example, marc.info can do something like that; you simply go and do
http://marc.info/?i=<message-id>
and it finds you the mail messages with that id it has indexed. You can then browse the whole thread from there.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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