Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] .clang-format: Remove conditional comments | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:56:06 -0800 |
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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.
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