Re: [PATCH 2/2] copy-firmware: fail gracefully if moreutils parallel is installed

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Timur,

Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com> writes:

> The copy-firmware.sh script can use the "parallel" command to
> parallelize some operations, but it needs the GNU version of
> parallel.  There is another, simpler version of parallel that is part
> of the moreutils package, but that version confuses the
> has_gnu_parallel() function.  So first test to make sure that
> the --version parameter is even recognized before trying to use it.
>
> If in the future, moreutils parallel adds support for --version, this
> script should still work because that version should never report
> "GNU parallel".

Did you test that it works with moreutils' parallel?  When I authored
this change I went with GNU parallel because it could ingest a list of
commands from a file, and I couldn't see moreutils' parallel supporting
that.  Maybe I had missed something?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim