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On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 04:02:07PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 11:41:10PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> > > I feel like I am missing something here.
> >> > 
> >> > That is a weird response, you feel like something is missing
> >> 
> >> There is. The patch.
> >> 
> >> Maintainers have a slightly better memory than a goldfish, but given
> >> the high volume of patches, we don't remember threads from 2016. Also,
> >> all our infrastructure has limited memory, this patch is not in lore,
> >> and it is not in patchworks. So in terms of getting merged, it does
> >> not exist.
> >> 
> >> We do however recommend that if a patch has not been merged within 2
> >> weeks, it is rebased, any Acked-by: etc tags are added and the patch
> >> reposted.
> >
> > Thanks Andrew, that is also my position.
> >
> > A ping for a multi-year old patch is unusual (for me).
> > I was wondering if there was a back story. I guess not.
> 
> The only story here is that I was reviewing the set of patches we apply
> to our kernels, and I noticed that this one, judging by the discussion,
> should have been applied to some tree or other ages ago.
> 
> Now if it takes 6 years to get a one-line patch (a fix for a regression,
> no less) accepted, I have better things to spend my time on.

A long time to be sure. As Andrew explained, the patch is now stale.
It will need to be rebased and reposted in ordered to be considered for
upstream.