Re: LLVM=1 patches for 4.19

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:04:45PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Dear stable kernel maintainers,
> Please consider the attached mbox file, which contains 10 patches which
> cherry pick cleanly onto 4.19.y:
> 1. commit 8708e13c6a06 ("MAINTAINERS: add CLANG/LLVM BUILD SUPPORT info")
> 2. commit 7bac98707f65 ("kbuild: add OBJSIZE variable for the size tool")
> 3. commit fcf1b6a35c ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on
> building w/ Clang/LLVM")
> 4. commit 0f44fbc162b7 ("Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size")
> 5. commit 63b903dfebde ("net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass
> CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware")
> 6. commit 734f3719d343 ("net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of
> $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware")
> 7. commit eefb8c124fd9 ("x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to
> be specified")
> 8. commit aa824e0c962b ("kbuild: remove AS variable")
> 9. commit 7e20e47c70f8 ("kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1")
> 10. commit a0d1c951ef08 ("kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default
> tools to Clang/LLVM")
> 
> The series is analogous to the previous accepted series sent for 5.4,
> though this series is for 4.19.y:
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAKwvOd=Ko_UHWF-bYotqjPVw=chW_KMUFuBp_o8uOg0wOyHyWA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
> 
> I don't plan to backport the series any further than 4.19.

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about anything older than 4.19.y at the moment
for stuff like this.

All look good, now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h