Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] Bump minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 14:41:31 EST


On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 09:57:57AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> This patch series raises the minimum supported version of LLVM to
> 11.0.0.
>
> Patch #1 outlines the issue, goes over the potential impact of the
> change, and does the actual bump. Subsequent patches clean up the
> various checks that are always true after the bump.
>
> I have marked this revision as RFC to give various parties the option to
> comment on this bump before it is done, namely KernelCI and Linaro's
> LKFT, who are still testing clang-10. I have added some other folks to
> CC that I know are testing with clang to see if this impacts them in any
> way (as I would like to impact as few people as possible) but as far as
> I am aware, most other CIs and developers are testing closer to tip of
> tree. If that is not true, scream so that we can see what can be done
> about that. If I missed anyone who is actively testing with clang,
> please key them in and I will make sure to include them in future
> revisions (if any are needed).
>
> It probably makes sense for this series to live in -mm.

Sounds good to me. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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