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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] .clang-format: Remove conditional comments
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 22:33 +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> It is, yeah; however, the concern is that there may be developers
> running an old clang-format from their distro (i.e. not using it for
> compiling the kernel).

I expect that'd be extremely unusual.

> We need to compare the functionality advantage
> vs. the inconvenience of installing a current LLVM. The best would be
> to ask whoever is using it right now, but there is no easy way to do
> that -- many will only notice when the change is actually pushed :-)

Do remember that this patch is for the current kernel and
not any old version that someone might be compiling.

The current kernel _requires_ clang 10.0+ and that would
obviously provide clang-format 10+ as well.