Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Make scripts executable

[Michal Marek]

On 2014-08-21 05:25, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:10:48 +0200
> Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes
>> it easier to use the scripts manually.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> I am not sure at all, but
> it seems scripts/checkpatch.pl has a rule
> to ban execute permissions.

I didn't know about this, but the intent of the rule seems to be to
avoid *.c files with execute permissions.


> # Check for incorrect file permissions
>                 if ($line =~ /^new (file )?mode.*[7531]\d{0,2}$/) {
>                         my $permhere = $here . "FILE: $realfile\n";
>                         if ($realfile !~ m@scripts/@ &&
>                             $realfile !~ /\.(py|pl|awk|sh)$/) {

Here it explicitly skips files below scripts/ and files with known
script suffixes.

Michal
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