[PATCH] Recommend correct way to submit new version of the patches.

[Subodh Nijsure]

Russell King suggested proper way to submit new versions of the patches.
See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-April/096236.html
Modify SubmittingPatches to summerize that recommendation.

Signed-off-by: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 4468ce2..4b166a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -579,6 +579,18 @@ use diffstat options "-p 1 -w 70" so that filenames are listed from
 the top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal
 space (easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation).
 
+Please don't thread the posting of a new version of the patches to
+the previous posting of the older version.  In other words, the
+initial summary mail for Vn should not be threaded to the Vn-1
+series, and the individual patches for Vn should only be threaded
+to the initial summary mail for Vn. This is to avoid one massive
+thread for a proposed patch.
+
+If you wish to provide a direct reference back to a previous thread,
+please do so via URLs into archives, or providing the message id or
+exact subject of the previous series in the new summary message body.
+But please don't thread each version to the previous version!
+
 See more details on the proper patch format in the following
 references.
 
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1.7.5.4

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