Re: [PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 17:41:02 EST


Hi Luca,

As Randy said, gen-insn-attr-x86.awk doesn't need gawk anymore,

> Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk

because above patch removes POSIX character classes.
So I think we don't need to update Documentation/Changes.

Thank you,


Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Gnu awk is required for generating generating
> arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:
>
> GEN arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
> Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
>
> mawk doesn't work anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hum, who is in charge of the documentation?
> Masami can you push it?
>
> Documentation/Changes | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> index f08b313..abec6f2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Changes
> +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ o udev 081 # udevinfo -V
> o grub 0.93 # grub --version
> o mcelog 0.6
> o iptables 1.4.1 # iptables -V
> +o Gnu awk 3.1.5 # awk --version
>
>
> Kernel compilation
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