On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:27:32PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:14 PM Nick Desaulniers > <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Oh, I almost forgot, here's a picture of my cat who helped me by > trying to lay on my keyboard mid-interactive rebase of this series. > https://photos.app.goo.gl/J7CtBJtHmiuzhSfq7 > I asked him nicely to move; he proceeded to bite me, and not comply. I think this needs to be an ongoing change to the stable kernel process. Since such things require documentation, I propose: diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst index 06f743b612c4..928f6f3ce6e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree ---------------------------------------------------- + - Preference may be given to submissions featuring pictures of cats. Also dogs. - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable submission guidelines as described in :ref:`Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst <netdev-FAQ>` > > Dear stable kernel maintainers, > > Please consider the attached mbox file, which contains 9 patches which > > cherry pick cleanly onto 5.4: > > > > 1. commit fcf1b6a35c16 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on > > building w/ Clang/LLVM") > > 2. commit 0f44fbc162b7 ("Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size") > > 3. commit 63b903dfebde ("net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass > > CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware") > > 4. commit 734f3719d343 ("net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of > > $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware") > > 5. commit eefb8c124fd9 ("x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to > > be specified") > > 6. commit 94f7345b7124 ("kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable") > > 7. commit aa824e0c962b ("kbuild: remove AS variable") > > 8. commit 7e20e47c70f8 ("kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1") > > 9. commit a0d1c951ef08 ("kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default > > tools to Clang/LLVM") And FWIW, "yes please" from me as well. This makes things muuuch easier to test LTS with Clang. -- Kees Cook
