Re: Linux 4.14.10

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:38:15PM +0100, Fran�ois Valenduc wrote:
> Le 29/12/17 � 18:32, Greg KH a �crit�:
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:18:18PM +0100, Fran�ois Valenduc wrote:
> >> No solution found to the permissions on tools/objtool/sync-check.sh  ?
> > Is the permission not correct in the repo?  Is it not correct in the
> > patch I sent out in response to this?
> >
> >> git or patch is not smart enough for that ? It's obviously extremely
> >> easy to solve the problem, but I find that rather strange.
> > git and patch handle it just fine, quilt has issues, which I worked
> > around very easily.  Are you having problems with the git tree as-is?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> It seems I messed up with enigmail. So in case you couldn't read my
> reply, I send it again.
> 
> I didn't see the posts of Toralf Forster before replying to your
> annoucement. But my problem is exactly the same. I extracted the patch
> from git (with git diff v4.14.9..v4.14.10). The permissions are also
> wrong if I download the patch from kernel.org. In both cases,
> sync-check.sh is not executable.

That's fine, but when you apply the patch, you need to keep the file
mode.  So be careful as to how you apply it.

I just got told that there's a patch in Andrew's tree that fixes this
(it doesn't rely on the mode of the file.)  Hopefully it gets into
Linus's tree soon and then I can queue it up into the stable tree to
help people who don't only use git.

thanks,

greg k-h