linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/setlocalversion: fix a bug when LOCALVERSION is empty

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATTKZgTLqe87t=qBKBcvd+GW9boOQQjSRk_ES4+Lb+eug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:27:43 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc:     Nico Schottelius <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@...ottelius.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/setlocalversion: fix a bug when LOCALVERSION
 is empty

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 8:54 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 5:59 PM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Sorry to say, but I am not convinced by the patch.
> > >
> > > While yes, we might have changed the behaviour slightly, reading
> > > something on the line of
> > >
> > > if [ -z ... ]
> > >
> > > is significantly more simple, elegant and easier to maintain, than
> > > a rather atypical special case for setting a variable to empty,
> > > using
> > >
> > > if [ "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set" ] ..
> > >
> > > *and* because it is so atypical, adding a long comment for it, too.
> > >
> > > Additonally, -z should be correct if the variable *is* truly empty. I
> > > assume it actually isn't and contains whitespace, which is not the same
> > > as being set and empty.
> > >
> > > Instead of re-adding complexity, could you consider changing the build
> > > flow so that LOCALVERSION is either unset or empty?
> > >
> > > Nico
> >
> > I set LOCALVERSION to an empty string (with "export LOCALVERSION="). This
> > prevented the kernel from adding a "+" sign to the kernel version. Since
> > the commit 042da426f8eb, it no longer works and the kernel adds a "+" sign
> > if LOCALVERSION is set and empty.
> >
> > If you don't like "if [ "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set" ]", then please
> > provide some other way how to test if the variable is set.
>
> if [ -z "${LOCALVERSION+set}" ]
>
> is the alternative way I came up with, but
> I am OK with your v3.
>
>
> I will pick it up for -rc2.
>
>

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada