On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:23:07 +0000 Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Octal mode support patch series has dependency over these patches. > Should I send these two patches again or specifies them as dependency patches in the cover letter. No, you should either base your work on the master branch of the linux-next repo [1] (as suggested by Vignesh) or wait for 4.21-rc1/5.0-rc1 before sending a new version. [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/