linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:58:27 +0100
From:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:17:07PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:09:35 +0100 Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > I'm now quite certain on which side to tweak things ;)
> 
> The other parts of your patch should probably be merged IMO.

Hmm, that particular part consists of _two_ transformations:
- removing the leading dot
- keep everything before [:punct:]

and the first transformation doesn't work on certain dash versions
the way it's currently coded.

> Would you resend a trimmed-down patch?
> or should I do it?

Feel free to go ahead, otherwise I'll try another patch sometime soon.
All I care about is that the result works on (at least)
one shell implementation _more_ than the current status ;)

Thanks a lot,

Andreas Mohr
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