linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] convert headers_install.pl->headers

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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:29:55 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	rob@...dley.net
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] convert headers_install.pl->headers_install.sh

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:12:51PM -0800, rob@...dley.net wrote:
> From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.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@...dley.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@...nborg.org>

	Sam
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