On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:12:51PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > From: Rob Landley <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
