Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753307AbdGSBtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:49:43 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:17152 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752921AbdGSBrN (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:47:13 -0400 To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Hannes Reinecke , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: fix firmware build with O=path From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20170629041716.26865-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <20170718183536.35e00175@cakuba.netronome.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:45:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170718183536.35e00175@cakuba.netronome.com> (Jakub Kicinski's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:35:36 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 627 Lines: 17 Jakub, > 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... It's an indication that the patch sat around without any reviews for way too long. People generally don't go chasing around in their mail archives for several week old patches to review. The best thing to do for patches I mark as deferred is to resubmit them so they get back on people's radar. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering