Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.12-1 tag

[Oliver O'Halloran]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:44 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 4:06 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull powerpc updates for 5.12.
>
> Pulled. However:
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> >  mode change 100755 => 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-functions.sh
> >  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-vf-aware.sh
> >  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/eeh-vf-unaware.sh
>
> Somebody is being confused.
>
> Why create two new shell scripts with the proper executable bit, and
> then remove the executable bit from an existing one?
>
> That just seems very inconsistent.

eeh-function.sh just provides some helper functions for the other
scripts and doesn't do anything when executed directly. I thought
making it non-executable made sense.

>
>              Linus