[llvm-dev] questions about backport to 3.8/3.9/4.0

[Y Song via llvm-dev]

Thanks. That is good suggestion. I will start to work on 4.0 now.
It would be good to know the 4.0.x patch release schedule and how to
contribute.

I found this email containing backporting timeline for 4.0.1 (already done):
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-March/111530.html

>From email, it is not clear to me whether we have upcoming
4.0.2 or not.

Thanks!

Yonghong

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:27 PM, 陳韋任 <chenwj.cs97g at g2.nctu.edu.tw> wrote:
> I have no experience on backporting. However, the patches you want
> only involves BPF backend itself,
> I don't see any particular trouble of backporting. I would suggest you
> start working on the latest LLVM
> release, i.e., 4.0, then run the testsuite to make sure there is no regression.
>
> HTH,
> chenwj
>
> 2017-07-15 1:36 GMT+08:00 Y Song via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to backport the following three patches (currently in trunk 5.0)
>> to 3.8/3.9/4.0:
>>
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/rL305560
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/rL305608
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/rL306685
>>
>> Some BPF users want them since their product needs to work on
>> old linux distribution which has older versions of LLVM.
>>
>> Could somebody (maybe Tom Stellard or others) help clarify whether it
>> is possible and what is the procedure/timeline for backporting?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Yonghong
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