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Documentation: stable: clarify patch series prerequisites 

Add some clarifications for patches that have dependencies within the
patch series.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo%40hugovil.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git cherry-pick fd21073
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Note that for a patch series, you do not have to list as prerequisites the
patches present in the series itself. For example, if you have the following
patch series:
.. code-block:: none
patch1
patch2
where patch2 depends on patch1, you do not have to list patch1 as
prerequisite of patch2 if you have already marked patch1 for stable
inclusion.
* For patches that may have kernel version prerequisites specify them using
the following format in the sign-off area: