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

[Y Song via llvm-dev]

Thanks for the information. I will communicate with BPF users who want
backport based on this expectation.

Yonghong

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> I think we generally don't plan for .2 releases unless some
> particularly nasty bug shows up.
>
> +Tom fyi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Y Song via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 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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