[PATCH] Documentation/submitting-patches: Document RESEND tag on patches

[Borislav Petkov]

Hi Jon,

here's the next piece of documentation which should be generic enough.

Thx.

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:26:29 +0200

Explain when a submitter should tag a patch or a patch series with the
"RESEND" tag.

This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index ab92d9ccd39a..9284735e0b34 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -346,6 +346,16 @@ that you have sent your patches to the right place.  Wait for a minimum of
 one week before resubmitting or pinging reviewers - possibly longer during
 busy times like merge windows.
 
+It's also ok to resend the patch or the patch series after a couple of
+weeks with the word "RESEND" added to the subject line::
+
+   [PATCH Vx RESEND] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
+
+Don't add "RESEND" when you are submitting a modified version of your
+patch or patch series - "RESEND" only applies to resubmission of a
+patch or patch series which have not been modified in any way from the
+previous submission.
+
 
 Include PATCH in the subject
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-- 
2.29.2


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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