From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH i-g-t 1/5] tests: Use bash for debugfs_wedged and drm_lib.sh
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:04:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tttyazh.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476271757.2817.18.camel@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On ke, 2016-10-12 at 14:16 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> If you really care, go ahead and send the patches to make these Bourne
>> shell compatible, but then do also sign up for testing them on non-bash
>> shells. The CI won't. I don't think it's worth the trouble, but YMMV.
>
> If they're re-written using POSIX sh constructs only, I don't think
> they need to be tested outside of POSIX sh? That's what standards are
> for.
It's just that if the majority of folks and the CI have bash as /bin/sh,
we won't notice when we accidentally add bashisms, and it'll eventually
break. Maybe you could keep running shellcheck [1] on them, or
something.
[1] https://www.shellcheck.net/
> I also remember FreeBSD guys being all for letting bash dependency go.
> So there'd be actual gains too.
I'm biting my lips not to quip on that.
> All are easily convertible. So let's do this.
If you have the time, go ahead. But don't break *any* functionality, no
compromises.
BR,
Jani.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 13:36 [PATCH i-g-t 1/5] tests: Use bash for debugfs_wedged and drm_lib.sh ville.syrjala
2016-10-06 13:36 ` [PATCH i-g-t 2/5] tests: Leave basic breadcrumbs in dmesg for shell script based tests ville.syrjala
2016-10-07 7:24 ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-07 10:06 ` Ville Syrjälä
2016-10-06 13:36 ` [PATCH i-g-t 3/5] tests/vgem_reload_basic: Leave breadcrumbs in dmesg ville.syrjala
2016-10-06 13:36 ` [PATCH i-g-t 4/5] tests/tools_test: Fix it up for intel_reg ville.syrjala
2016-10-06 13:36 ` [PATCH i-g-t 5/5] tools/intel_reg: Return SUCCESS after a succesful dump ville.syrjala
2016-10-07 7:15 ` [PATCH i-g-t 1/5] tests: Use bash for debugfs_wedged and drm_lib.sh Joonas Lahtinen
2016-10-07 7:38 ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-07 9:54 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-10-12 10:12 ` David Weinehall
2016-10-12 11:05 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-10-12 11:16 ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-12 11:29 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-10-12 13:04 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2016-10-12 13:17 ` David Weinehall
2016-10-13 14:05 ` Daniel Vetter
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