Re: A patch slipped through the cracks?

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 14:07:07 EST


Em Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:17:17 +0200
Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> escreveu:

> Hi,
>
> we're trying to get this reasonably trivial patch [1] applied for more
> than a year and four attempts now. (I'm not including it in this
> message so that this message won't be ignored for the same reason the
> submissions were, whatever they are.)
>
> [1] https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/40862/
>
> I have no idea what went wrong. There was a suspicion (somewhat
> confirmed by the initial patch submitter) that spam filtering could
> have dropped the first message. Since then the patch did make it to the
> list numerous times and was picked up by patchwork.
>
> The patchwork's idea about the patch being "Superseded" is wrong -- I
> have no idea why. But someone *please* look into this and apply the
> patch.

Not sure what happened, but I tagged is as new. I'll take a look
on it later, when I start handling patches for Kernel 4.15.

Regards,
Maur

Thanks,
Mauro