On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:01 PM Micah Morton [off-list ref] 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