Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753187AbdGSBwp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:52:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:33528 "EHLO mail-pg0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753124AbdGSBwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:52:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:52:39 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Hannes Reinecke , "James E.J. Bottomley" , 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: <20170718185239.2179cdb6@cakuba.netronome.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20170629041716.26865-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <20170718183536.35e00175@cakuba.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: 790 Lines: 17 On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:45:49 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > 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. OK, I will repost then. Thanks for the explanation! I hope someone will find time to review, the driver is a bit old :)