Re: [PATCH 00/10] Bump minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0
From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-08-19 00:55:29
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:57:16AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
s390 and x86 have required LLVM 15 since
30d17fac6aae ("scripts/min-tool-version.sh: raise minimum clang version to 15.0.0 for s390")
7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0")
respectively. This series bumps the rest of the kernel to 15.0.0 to
match, which allows for a decent number of clean ups.Looks good to me! Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
I think it makes sense for either Andrew to carry this via -mm on a nonmm branch or me to carry this via the Kbuild tree, with the appropriate acks.
I vote you carry it with Kbuild. :) -- Kees Cook