Re: [PATCH 1/1] [media] mb86a20s: always initialize a return value

[Andrey Utkin]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 07:09:10PM +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I sent the following patch (available on
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9325035/) a few weeks ago and got no
> feedback even though the bug it fixes seems to still exist in
> linux-next. Did I do something wrong? Should I consider this patch to be
> rejected?

No, it's extremely unlikely that bug fixing patches get silently
rejected by being ignored. Most probably the time of your submission is
unfortunate, being at the time when submissions are not merged.
I am in same situation with a couple of patches. I asked Mauro yesterday
on IRC and he replied:

I don't handle submissions during 3 weeks, during the merge window
one week before, and the two weeks after that
except when it is a bug that would affect the merge window
(end  of quote)

So unless you make it clear about which "release branches" are affected,
your submission is to be delayed - possibly up to 6 weeks or so.

I was suggested to add tags Fixes: buggy-commit-id and
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx