[PATCH] doc: what a patch series is

[PATCH] doc: what a patch series is

[Randy Dunlap]

Andrew, Jeff:  would you update tpp.txt and patch-format.html
respectively to clarify this?  (I can send patches if you prefer that.)


From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a
series of related patches rather than "here are some of my
patches as multiple (numbered) emails."

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.21-git10.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ linux-2.6.21-git10/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ area or subsystem of the kernel is being
 The "summary phrase" in the email's Subject should concisely
 describe the patch which that email contains.  The "summary
 phrase" should not be a filename.  Do not use the same "summary
-phrase" for every patch in a whole patch series.
+phrase" for every patch in a whole patch series (where a "patch
+series" is an ordered sequence of multiple, related patches).
 
 Bear in mind that the "summary phrase" of your email becomes
 a globally-unique identifier for that patch.  It propagates