Re: [PATCH 07/20] kbuild: scripts/install.sh: allow for the version number

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:05:23PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Some architectures put the version number by default at the end of the
> > files that are copied, so add support for this to be set by arch type.
> >
> > Odds are one day we should change this for x86, but let's not break
> > anyone's systems just yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >  scripts/install.sh | 15 +++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
> > index 72dc4c81013e..934619f81119 100644
> > --- a/scripts/install.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/install.sh
> > @@ -60,8 +60,19 @@ else
> >         base=vmlinux
> >  fi
> >
> > -install "$2" "$4"/"$base"
> > -install "$3" "$4"/System.map
> > +# Some architectures name their files based on version number, and
> > +# others do not.  Call out the ones that do not to make it obvious.
> > +case "${ARCH}" in
> > +       x86)
> > +               version=""
> > +               ;;
> > +       *)
> > +               version="-${1}"
> > +               ;;
> > +esac
> > +
> > +install "$2" "$4"/"$base""$version"
> 
> 
> Too many quotes are eye sore.
> 
> 
>     install "$2" "$4/$base$version"
> 
> looks cleaner in my opinion.
> 
> Shell correctly understands the end of each
> variable because a slash or a dollar
> cannot be a part of a variable name.

Good idea, I usually just default to "quote everything!" when dealing
with bash variables.  I'll fix this up.

Oh, any preference for "$2" vs. "${2}"?  I don't care either way but I
couldn't tell what is the normal kernel style these days.

thanks for all of the review, much appreciated!

greg k-h