[GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.12-1 tag

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 23 11:53:53 AEDT 2021


"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:44 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 4:06 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > Please pull powerpc updates for 5.12.
>>
>> Pulled. However:
>>
>> >  mode change 100755 => 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-functions.sh
>> >  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-vf-aware.sh
>> >  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-vf-unaware.sh
>>
>> Somebody is being confused.
>>
>> Why create two new shell scripts with the proper executable bit, and
>> then remove the executable bit from an existing one?
>>
>> That just seems very inconsistent.
>
> eeh-function.sh just provides some helper functions for the other
> scripts and doesn't do anything when executed directly. I thought
> making it non-executable made sense.

Yeah I think it does make sense. It just looks a bit odd in the diffstat
like this. Maybe if we called it lib.sh it would be more obvious?

cheers


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