On 02/09/2019 15:21, Jon Hunter wrote: > > On 02/09/2019 15:14, Guillaume Tucker wrote: >> + Jon Hunter who hit a similar issue > > Thanks for adding me. > >> On 28/08/2019 21:19, Guillaume Tucker wrote: >>> The merge_config.sh script verifies that all the config options have >>> their expected value in the resulting file and prints any issues as >>> warnings. These checks aren't intended to be treated as errors given >>> the current implementation. However, since "set -e" was added, if the >>> grep command to look for a config option does not find it the script >>> will then abort prematurely. >>> >>> Handle the case where the grep exit status is non-zero by setting >>> ACTUAL_VAL to an empty string to restore previous functionality. >>> >>> Fixes: cdfca821571d ("merge_config.sh: Check error codes from make") >>> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh >>> index d924c51d28b7..d673268d414b 100755 >>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh >>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh >>> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$TMP_FILE $OUTPUT_ARG $ALLTARGET >>> for CFG in $(sed -n -e "$SED_CONFIG_EXP1" -e "$SED_CONFIG_EXP2" $TMP_FILE); do >>> >>> REQUESTED_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" $TMP_FILE) >>> - ACTUAL_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" "$KCONFIG_CONFIG") >>> + ACTUAL_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" || echo) > > Shouldn't this just be 'true' instead of 'echo'? I just explained why I used "echo" on your thread. Essentially, I think both can be used but "echo" made more sense to me because the script is then using the output string from the command rather than the exit status. Guillaume