From: Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com

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

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com --- Changes since v1: rebase on latest torvalds/master

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst index 41f1e07abfdf..1704f1c686d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst @@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ comment: git cherry-pick fd21073 git cherry-pick <this commit>

+ 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:

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