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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:30:48 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:15:55 -0700
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:

> Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
> small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.
> 
> We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
> time.  Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
> GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
> to the past 3 major versions.  LLVM tends to support one major release
> and one minor release every six months.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Applied, thanks.

jon