On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:28 PM Joe Perches <j...@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.gc9...@kroah.com/ -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
