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