Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752544AbdGSBfl (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:35:41 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:36695 "EHLO mail-pg0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbdGSBfj (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:35:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:35:36 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Hannes Reinecke , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: fix firmware build with O=path Message-ID: <20170718183536.35e00175@cakuba.netronome.com> In-Reply-To: <20170629041716.26865-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> References: <20170629041716.26865-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Organization: Netronome Systems, Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 637 Lines: 12 On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:17:16 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Building firmware with O=path was apparently broken in aic7 for ever. > Message of the previous commit to the Makefile (from 2008) mentions > this unfortunate state of affairs already. Fix this, mostly to make > randconfig builds more reliable. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski I just noticed this patch got marked as "Deferred, archived" in patchwork. I'm not entirely sure by whom and why? Could someone explain what is the issue? I would really appreciate if we could merge this patch and have this driver not break builds randomly...