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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] kbuild fixes
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Linus.
>>
>> A few kbuild related fixes.
>
> []
>>
>> - Fix use of echo -ne. Is caused issues for ubuntu (IIRC) users
>
> As has been discussed previously (and Sam has been CC'ed), the fix
> is still incorrect.  It replaces "echo -ne" with "/bin/echo -ne",
> but neither of the two are guaranteed to support the necessary
> arguments and necessary (hexadecimal) escape sequences.  What should
> be used here is printf(1).  The trivial patch below (on top of these
> kbuild changes) fixes this issue.
>
> Thanks.
>
> /mjt
>
> Signed-Off-By: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
>

Sorry, I just saw this email.

Hmm, printf(1) should be more portable than echo(1), I checked your patch,
how about using 'printf "%b" ' instead?

Thanks!
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