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docs: netdev: clarify the need to sending reverts as patches

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We don't state explicitly that reverts need to be submitted
as a patch. It occasionally comes up.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327172646.2622943-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@ -184,11 +184,18 @@ Handling misapplied patches
Occasionally a patch series gets applied before receiving critical feedback,
or the wrong version of a series gets applied.
There is no revert possible, once it is pushed out, it stays like that.
Making the patch disappear once it is pushed out is not possible, the commit
history in netdev trees is immutable.
Please send incremental versions on top of what has been merged in order to fix
the patches the way they would look like if your latest patch series was to be
merged.
In cases where full revert is needed the revert has to be submitted
as a patch to the list with a commit message explaining the technical
problems with the reverted commit. Reverts should be used as a last resort,
when original change is completely wrong; incremental fixes are preferred.
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