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To:     Slade Watkins <srw@sladewatkins.net>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
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On 11/7/22 12:49, Slade Watkins wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:38 AM Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> wrote:
>> I've been trying since July to get this regression that was introduced in
>> 5.14 fixed. This is my third time submitting this version of the patch in the
>> last two months. Both prior submissions have not received any comments from
>> (nor have they been applied by) the x86 maintainers. I don't really know
>> what else to do at this point beyond "complain to the management" as it
>> were.
>>
>> I appreciate anything you can do to unjam things here.
> Maintainers: is there any reason why this hasn't been applied, or
> received comments? I'm confused and a bit worried.

Thomas had some strong opinions in the area, so I've been neglecting it.
 I'll put it in my queue to take a look now, though.