Subject: Re: [PATCH] [powerpc] do not expect executable permissions for in-tree shell scripts

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:20:40 +0200

On Thu, Jun 10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I still don't like it very much.. why not chmod'ing it +x instead ? :-)

I looked at a few other scripts in the source tree, they are called with
$(CONFIG_SHELL) <name>, or perl <name>, or awk <name> or even sh <name>.

So my change adds some sort of consistency and makes packaging more robust.

Olaf