Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array
Date	2017-03-17 20:40 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > You can also find some reasons in the Why section of LLVM-Linux project:
> > http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> From that:
> 
>  - LLVM/Clang is a fast moving project with many things fixed quickly
>    and features added.
> 
> So what's the deal with that 5 year old bug you want us to work around?
> 
> Also, clang doesn't support asm cc flags output and a few other
> extensions last time I checked.
> 

Another great one:

 - BSD License (some people prefer this license to the GPL)

Seems a very weak argument to make when talking about the Linux Kernel
which is very explicitly GPLv2 (and not later).

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[PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Michael Davidson <md@google.com> - 2017-03-17 01:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 13:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-17 13:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 13:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Michael Davidson <md@google.com> - 2017-03-17 20:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 21:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-17 21:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-24 15:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-17 13:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-17 19:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-17 19:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-17 20:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-17 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 20:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 15:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-24 15:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 15:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-17 21:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2017-03-18 01:50 +0100

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