On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:05:45 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:

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 The "State" field will tell you exactly where things are at with your
-patch. Patches are indexed by the ``Message-ID`` header of the emails
+patch:  

                                                      of the patch's email.

The diff may be a little confusing. The full sentence is below..

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+================== =============================================================
+Patch state        Description
+================== =============================================================
+New, Under review  pending review, patch is in the maintainer’s queue for review
+Accepted           patch was applied to the appropriate networking tree, this is
+                   usually set automatically by the pw-bot
+Needs ACK          waiting for an ack from an area maintainer or testing
+Changes requested  patch has not passed the review, new revision is expected
+                   with appropriate code and commit message changes
+Rejected           patch has been rejected and new revision is not expected
+Not applicable     patch is expected to be applied outside of the networking
+                   subsystem
+Awaiting upstream  patch should be reviewed and handled by appropriate
+                   sub-maintainer, who will send it on to the networking trees
+Deferred           patch needs to be reposted later, usually due to dependency
+                   or because it was posted for a closed tree
+Superseded         new version of the patch was posted, usually set by the
+                   pw-bot
+RFC                not to be applied, usually not in maintainer’s review queue,
+                   pw-bot can automatically set patches to this state based
+		   on subject tags  

Nit:
Above line uses tabs for indentation. All other lines here use spaces.

Thanks, will fix.

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+================== =============================================================
+
+Patches are indexed by the ``Message-ID`` header of the emails
 which carried them so if you have trouble finding your patch append

..here.