linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: fix firmware build with O=path

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Message-ID: <20170718183536.35e00175@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:35:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: fix firmware build with O=path

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 <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

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...