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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] scripts/basic/bin2c: Complete error handling in main()
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:31 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> 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

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