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Message-ID: <878qigpk9p.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:38:42 -0700
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ver_linux: Reference coreutils instead of sh-utils.

Collin Funk <collin.funk1@...il.com> writes:

> The Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils packages were combined to
> create GNU Coreutils which had its first major release in 2003 [1]. It
> is unlikely that someone is using Shellutils today, and likely that many
> do not remember what the Shellutils package is.
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/
>
> Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@...il.com>
> ---
>  scripts/ver_linux | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
> index d6f2362d3792..222e01eb9697 100755
> --- a/scripts/ver_linux
> +++ b/scripts/ver_linux
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ BEGIN {
>  	printversion("Net-tools", version("ifconfig --version"))
>  	printversion("Kbd", version("loadkeys -V"))
>  	printversion("Console-tools", version("loadkeys -V"))
> -	printversion("Sh-utils", version("expr --v"))
> +	printversion("Coreutils", version("expr --v"))
>  	printversion("Udev", version("udevadm --version"))
>  	printversion("Wireless-tools", version("iwconfig --version"))

Hi Jonathan, friendly ping on this tiny patch I sent last month [1].

Thanks,
Collin

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/9ecf7c579454d89c73b8d2c29d13ddb1768079da.1755310602.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com/