linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy

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Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:28:12 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@...il.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy

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.