In that case you should send only the incremental patch and add a Fixes reference to the original patch.
> > These are the patches for QAT AES-256 DOCSIS along with the documentation > update (which was missing from previous version) > > Regards, > Mairtin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 2:14 PM > To: O'loingsigh, Mairtin <mairtin.oloings...@intel.com>; Trahe, Fiona > <fiona.tr...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] crypto/qat: support DOCSIS AES-256 > > I believe this patch is already applied. Why is it recent?