On 2014-08-21 05:25, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > 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. I didn't know about this, but the intent of the rule seems to be to avoid *.c files with 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/@ && > $realfile !~ /\.(py|pl|awk|sh)$/) { Here it explicitly skips files below scripts/ and files with known script suffixes. Michal -- 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