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

From: Oliver O'Halloran
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 18:02:00 EST


On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:44 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 4:06 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull powerpc updates for 5.12.
>
> Pulled. However:
>
> > 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