Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:29:55 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] convert headers_install.pl->headers_install.sh |
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:12:51PM -0800, rob@landley.net wrote: > From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> > > Remove perl from make headers_install by replacing a perl script (doing > a simple regex search and replace) with a smaller, faster, simpler, > POSIX-2008 shell script implementation. The new shell script is a single > for loop calling sed and piping its output through unifdef to produce the > target file. > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
The shell based variant is smaller and faster which is good. As 99.999% of people buildign the kernel has perl installed that is not a reason to apply this patch. But as it bring benefits on their own then it has my:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam
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