Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID changes for v5.10

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:01 PM Micah Morton <mortonm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just rebased to v5.9 to make sure the 1-line changes that touch
> kernel/capability.c, kernel/groups.c and kernel/sys.c still applied
> cleanly without conflicts. Should I have rebased onto one of the -rc's
> for v5.9 instead?

No. You shouldn't have rebased at all.

Making sure something applies cleanly is simply not a reason to rebase.

See

  Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst

for some common rules.

             Linus