From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751676AbbAQTzW (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:55:22 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-f48.google.com ([209.85.192.48]:57631 "EHLO mail-qg0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbbAQTzU (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:55:20 -0500 Message-ID: <54BABE25.4030009@landley.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:55:17 -0600 From: Rob Landley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl References: <54AC72AF.5090609@landley.net> <20150106155024.5efa209d575fff4868758482@linux-foundation.org> <20150117080136.GA7396@amd> In-Reply-To: <20150117080136.GA7396@amd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/17/2015 02:01 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Tue 2015-01-06 15:50:24, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:41:35 -0600 Rob Landley wrote: >> >>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6. >>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script. ... >> - The offending commit has cc:stable, so have a think about adding a >> cc:stable to this one as well. > > Actually, I don't think this should go to stable. I like the patch, > but it is not a bug, and certainly not serious enough one. As long as the kernel doesn't make a habit of it, I don't care if there's a release or two embedded developers should skip. Under ideal conditions BSPs only tend to update about once every 18 months, and that's the _good_ ones. Rob