From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: Make run_tests executable
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:51:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120130155105.029b02fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327943069-28048-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:04:29 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Make the main script that launches the tests to
> become executable. Otherwise people need to launch
> it as an argument to a new bash instance.
>
That's a feature ;)
The x bit can easily get lost on kernel scripts. For example, if
someone upgrades their kernel with patch(1) and the patch adds or
renames the script, the x bit gets lost.
If we were to set the x bit for the subset of people who get their
scripts direct from a git repository then those people might write and
distribute tools which fail when used by people who have lost their x
bit. I've seen this happen at least once before.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 17:04 Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-30 23:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-01 15:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-02-01 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-02 12:39 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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