netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH V2 3/5] samples/bpf: add a README file to get users started

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Message-ID: <20160426173105.GD42777@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:31:06 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	bblanco@...mgrid.com, naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	borkmann@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 3/5] samples/bpf: add a README file to get
 users started

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> +
> +Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
> +------------------------------------------
> +
> +In some LLVM versions the BPF target were marked experimental. They
> +needed the 'cmake .. -DLLVM_EXPERIMENTAL_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=BPF'.  Since
> +version 3.7.1, LLVM adds a proper LLVM backend target for the BPF
> +bytecode architecture.

it's actually non-experimental since 3.7.0.
It was experimental after 3.6 was released during development of 3.7.
I doubt you can find this anywhere, so I suggest to just drop this paragraph.