linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/min-tool-version.sh: Raise minimum clang version to 19.1.0 for s390

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Message-ID: <20241114170524.9691-B-hca@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:05:24 +0100
From: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/min-tool-version.sh: Raise minimum clang
 version to 19.1.0 for s390

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:21:09AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 04:40:12PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Raise minimum clang version to 19.1.0 for s390 so that various inline
> > assembly format flags can be used. The missing format flags were
> > implemented with llvm-project commit 9c75a981554d ("[SystemZ] Implement A,
> > O and R inline assembly format flags (#80685)").
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Oof, this is quite new but now that kernel.org has LLVM binaries
> available, I do not think this is an unreasonable ask, especially if it
> makes your life easier with code maintenance.

Thanks for your feedback! I read this as "is nearly unreasonable" :)

Even though you acked this, I guess I will drop this for now and
maybe address this a few clang versions later.