Re: [PATCH 01/10] scripts/basic/bin2c: Complete error handling in main()

[Jim Davis]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:31 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:15:04 +0200
>
> Return values were not checked from five calls of the function "printf".
>
> This issue was detected also by using the Coccinelle software.
>
>
> * Add a bit of exception handling there.
>
> * Optimise this function implementation a bit.

The most interesting thing about this patch was trying to figure out
how to actually get bin2c to run at all.  Making a defconfig kernel
didn't run it.  Making a kernel with the latest Ubuntu 16.10 config
file didn't run it.  Setting CONFIG_IKCONFIG runs it (once), for the
folks who want to use scripts/extract-ikconfig.  After that, if you
dig about in the makefiles, it looks like you have to turn on the
Tomoyo LSM -- which doesn't seem to be a common occurrence -- or else
set CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE to generate the 'purgatory' thing it uses.
Again, not the most frequent of events, as far as I can tell.

Given how uncommon running bin2c seems to be, "optimizing" it may not
be a useful project.

-- 
Jim