Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Tue Feb 25 2020 - 15:52:30 EST


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:34 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:41 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Added to kbuild documentation. Provides more official info on building
> > kernels with Clang and LLVM than our wiki.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
>
> Perhaps, is it better to explicitly add it to MAINTAINERS?
>
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4118,6 +4118,7 @@ W: https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/
> B: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues
> C: irc://chat.freenode.net/clangbuiltlinux
> S: Supported
> +F: Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> K: \b(?i:clang|llvm)\b

I'm happy to leave it to the maintainers of Documentation/. Otherwise
we have a file for which there is no MAINTAINER, which seems
ambiguous.

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers