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From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	"# 3.4.x" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:05:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdn6ohOi-KSSOkC8BirHgXRRkbCk3Z_ySEyPPMg31cDB-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a9007605dec96c81ec85bc3dcc78faaa9ed06a0.camel@perches.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:28 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 21:22 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > It would be nice to get this into mainline sooner rather than later so
> > that it can start filtering into the stable trees. ToT LLVM builds have
> > been broken for a month now.
>
> People that build stable trees with new compilers
> unsupported at the time the of the base version
> release are just asking for trouble.

It is asymmetry that we have a minimum supported version of a
toolchain, but no maximum supported version of a toolchain for a given
branch.  I think that's a good thing; imagine if you were stuck on an
old compiler for a stable branch.  No thanks.  I guess we just like to
live dangerously? :P

Also, GKH has voiced support for newer toolchains for older kernel
releases before.  Related to this issue, in fact.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200818072531.GC9254@kroah.com/
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14 16:09 [PATCH v4] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy Nick Desaulniers
2020-09-14 16:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-09-14 16:16 ` [PATCH v5] " Nick Desaulniers
2020-09-15  4:22   ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-09-15  4:28     ` Joe Perches
2020-09-15 23:05       ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2020-09-15 18:13     ` Nick Desaulniers

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