Commit 4f013424 authored by Hugo Villeneuve's avatar Hugo Villeneuve Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation: stable: clarify patch series prerequisites 



Add some clarifications for patches that have dependencies within the
patch series.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo%40hugovil.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo@hugovil.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1b057bd8

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

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   Note that for a patch series, you do not have to list as prerequisites the

   patches present in the series itself. For example, if you have the following

   patch series:



   .. code-block:: none



     patch1

     patch2



   where patch2 depends on patch1, you do not have to list patch1 as

   prerequisite of patch2 if you have already marked patch1 for stable

   inclusion.



 * For patches that may have kernel version prerequisites specify them using

   the following format in the sign-off area: