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Message-ID: <a9c1387b-a95f-24c9-982f-0d969f0da624@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 20:14:19 +0530
From:   Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Matt Helsley <mhelsley@...are.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Julien Thierry <jthierry@...hat.com>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help

On 5/20/20 2:25 AM, Matt Helsley wrote:
> When the user requests help it's not an error so do not exit with
> a non-zero exit code. This is not especially useful for a user but
> any script that might wish to check that objtool --help is at least
> available can't rely on the exit code to crudely check that, for
> example, building an objtool executable succeeds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@...are.com>

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Kamalesh

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