Hi Michal, On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:10:48 +0200 Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes > it easier to use the scripts manually. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> I am not sure at all, but it seems scripts/checkpatch.pl has a rule to ban execute permissions. # Check for incorrect file permissions if ($line =~ /^new (file )?mode.*[7531]\d{0,2}$/) { my $permhere = $here . "FILE: $realfile\n"; if ($realfile !~ m@scripts/@ && $realfile !~ /\.(py|pl|awk|sh)$/) { ERROR("EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS", "do not set execute permissions for source files\n" . $permhere); } } Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html