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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: Hugo 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
··· 101 101 git cherry-pick fd21073 102 102 git cherry-pick <this commit> 103 103 104 + Note that for a patch series, you do not have to list as prerequisites the 105 + patches present in the series itself. For example, if you have the following 106 + patch series: 107 + 108 + .. code-block:: none 109 + 110 + patch1 111 + patch2 112 + 113 + where patch2 depends on patch1, you do not have to list patch1 as 114 + prerequisite of patch2 if you have already marked patch1 for stable 115 + inclusion. 116 + 104 117 * For patches that may have kernel version prerequisites specify them using 105 118 the following format in the sign-off area: 106 119