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[198.145.64.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a15sm3638741pfo.185.2020.08.20.13.44.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:44:45 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Greg KH , Sasha Levin , Masahiro Yamada , "# 3.4.x" , clang-built-linux , Nathan Chancellor , Dmitry Golovin , Geert Uytterhoeven , Fangrui Song , Sedat Dilek Subject: Re: LLVM=1 patches for 5.4 Message-ID: <202008201339.879ABA0@keescook> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:27:32PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:14 PM Nick Desaulniers > wrote: > > Oh, I almost forgot, here's a picture of my cat who helped me by > trying to lay on my keyboard mid-interactive rebase of this series. > https://photos.app.goo.gl/J7CtBJtHmiuzhSfq7 > I asked him nicely to move; he proceeded to bite me, and not comply. I think this needs to be an ongoing change to the stable kernel process. Since such things require documentation, I propose: diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst index 06f743b612c4..928f6f3ce6e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree ---------------------------------------------------- + - Preference may be given to submissions featuring pictures of cats. Also dogs. - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable submission guidelines as described in :ref:`Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst ` > > Dear stable kernel maintainers, > > Please consider the attached mbox file, which contains 9 patches which > > cherry pick cleanly onto 5.4: > > > > 1. commit fcf1b6a35c16 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on > > building w/ Clang/LLVM") > > 2. commit 0f44fbc162b7 ("Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size") > > 3. commit 63b903dfebde ("net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass > > CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware") > > 4. commit 734f3719d343 ("net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of > > $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware") > > 5. commit eefb8c124fd9 ("x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to > > be specified") > > 6. commit 94f7345b7124 ("kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable") > > 7. commit aa824e0c962b ("kbuild: remove AS variable") > > 8. commit 7e20e47c70f8 ("kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1") > > 9. commit a0d1c951ef08 ("kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default > > tools to Clang/LLVM") And FWIW, "yes please" from me as well. This makes things muuuch easier to test LTS with Clang. -- Kees Cook