Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:56:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:43:03 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > > NAK.
> > 
> > Sorry I slept thru another wonderful festival on LKML.
> 
> That's probably the best strategy.
> 
> > You don't have the authority to NAK the patch.
> 
> Yeah.  nak to naks.
> 
> > OTOH, you also didn't supply a patch.  If you do this, I'll be
> > glad to consider it.  If I can read it, that is.
> 
> Yes, I plan on merging that patch as-is.  If it was a compulsory part of
> kbuild then that would be a problem but as some optional tool I don't think
> that a bashism matters much.  Someone can fix it sometime should they feel
> so motivated.

Oleg didn't express it very polite, but he has a valid point that bash 
scripts should start with "#!/bin/bash" since /bin/sh might be some 
shell other than bash.

Randy, am I right to assume that such a change to your patch would be OK?

cu
Adrian

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