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docs: netdev: recommend against --in-reply-to
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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 <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823154922.1162644-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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patch is a good way to ensure your patch is ignored or pushed to the
bottom of the priority list.

.. _Changes requested:

Changes requested
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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version of the code if the discussion about the previous version is still
ongoing, unless directly instructed by a reviewer.

The new version of patches should be posted as a separate thread,
not as a reply to the previous posting. Change log should include a link
to the previous posting (see :ref:`Changes requested`).

Testing
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