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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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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 13:04 UTC|newest]

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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