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

[Jakub Kicinski]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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...