Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.

"Stop this garbage already. Stop adding pointless Link arguments that waste people's time," he wrote on the Linux kernel mailing list.

"Add the link if it has *ADDITIONAL* information. Dammit, I really hate those pointless links. I love seeing *useful* links, but 99 percent of the links I actually see just point to stupid useless garbage, and it *ONLY* wastes my time. AGAIN."

He explained that links must provide some useful explanation about why a particular commit was made, not just repeat messages people had already posted.

"I do suspect I would be a lot *less* annoyed by a link that at least leads to some _thread_ (and not just the acked-by emails that already got gathered up), rather than just leading ...