On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:28 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 20:25, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM Ard Biesheuvel > > <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > Provided that we stop sending Clang enablement patches to -stable: > > > > What does that mean? We're trying to provide clang support back to > > 4.4 LTS branches. (so 4.4, 4.9, 4.14, 4.19). > > I understand that is what you are attempting, but that does not mean > it /belongs/ in -stable. > > There are rules for stable, and people that track stable kernels (such > as the distros) should be able to rely on us to only backport bug > fixes, not linker script changes and other updates that fix issues > that did not exist when those kernels were released. > > It is unclear to me how these clang changes benefit those users.
If you're referring to https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg278381.html, that's fair (I think those were helpful for LLD support on arm64). Why didn't you speak up then? Why is this coming up now? -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
