linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9q2VuhN+Dhi-nzuJKPjXo8dZq013cZ-0x0t9StZFXCAJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:22:53 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam@...il.com>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils
 version to 2.23

On 3/24/20, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:02:02PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Borislav,
>>
>> When I forwarded this patch, I fixed up one more line.
>> (changes.rst duplicates the same information...)
>>
>> Please see this. I hope this should be OK.
>> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1214519/
>
> Thanks.
>
> However, I wanted to queue this patch *after* 5.7-rc1 and so that it
> lands in 5.8

Both Kees and I were pretty positive yesterday about getting this done
in 5.7, now. I don't think that filing these away in some subsystem
tree will actually result in any more bugs being shaken out, than if
we just do this at the very very beginning of the 5.7 cycle.