To help managing patch dependencies, both for maintainers or automation tasks, document a syntax for commit logs or cover letters to express their dependencies. Using the syntax proposed in Bugzilla ID 210: [https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210] Depends-on: series-NNNNN ("Title of the series") OR Depends-on: patch-NNNNN ("Title of the patch") Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>