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docs: netdev: recommend against --in-reply-to
It's somewhat unfortunate but with (my?) the current tooling if people post new versions of a set in reply to an old version managing the review queue gets difficult. So recommend against it. Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst

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patch is a good way to ensure your patch is ignored or pushed to the
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.. _Changes requested:
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version of the code if the discussion about the previous version is still
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The new version of patches should be posted as a separate thread,
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not as a reply to the previous posting. Change log should include a link
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to the previous posting (see :ref:`Changes requested`).
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