On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:12:51PM -0800, r...@landley.net wrote:
> From: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>
>
> Remove perl from make headers_install by replacing a perl script (doing
> a simple regex search and replace) with a smaller, faster, simpler,
> POSIX-2008 shell script implementation. The new shell script is a single
> for loop calling sed and piping its output through unifdef to produce the
> target file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>
The shell based variant is smaller and faster which is good.
As 99.999% of people buildign the kernel has perl installed that is not
a reason to apply this patch.
But as it bring benefits on their own then it has my:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org>
Sam
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