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Date:   Fri, 6 Jan 2023 11:34:41 -0800
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 0/8] mlx5 IPsec RoCEv2 support and netdev
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On 06 Jan 08:41, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:25:17PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 22:12:28 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> > > > PR should be based on Linus's -rcX tag and shouldn't include only this patchset.
>> > >
>> > > FWIW I don't understand what you mean by this comment.
>> > > PR should be based on a common ancestor, the -rc tags
>> > > are just a convenient shorthand.
>> >
>> > Linus asked for more than once to use sensible ancestor which is -rc.
>>
>> I mean.. as I said using -rc tags makes sanity checking the PRs easier,
>> so definitely encouraged.
>>
>> I was asking more about the second part of your sentence, what do you
>> mean by "shouldn't include only this patchset" ?
>
>When I saw "be applied to net-mlx5 branch", I imagined some branch which
>is based on net-rc and not on mlx5-next as usual. It looks like Saeed's
>intention was to say mlx5-next, but he misspelled it.

I meant mlx5-next.