scripts/nsdeps automatically generates a patch to add MODULE_IMPORT_NS
tags, and what is nicer, it sorts the lines alphabetically with the
'sort' command. However, the output from the 'sort' command depends on
locale.
For example, I got this:
$ { echo usbstorage; echo usb_storage; } | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sort
usbstorage
usb_storage
$ { echo usbstorage; echo usb_storage; } | LANG=C sort
usb_storage
usbstorage
So, this means people might potentially send different patches.
This kind of issue was reported in the past, for example,
commit f55f2328bb28 ("kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents
independent of locale").
Adding 'LANG=C' is a conventional way of fixing when a deterministic
result is desirable.
I added 'LANG=C' very close to the 'sort' command since changing
locale affects the language of error messages etc. We should respect
users' choice as much as possible.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add more commit log about the locale impact
scripts/nsdeps | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/nsdeps b/scripts/nsdeps
index 964b7fb8c546..3754dac13b31 100644
--- a/scripts/nsdeps
+++ b/scripts/nsdeps
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ generate_deps() {
for source_file in $mod_source_files; do
sed '/MODULE_IMPORT_NS/Q' $source_file > ${source_file}.tmp
offset=$(wc -l ${source_file}.tmp | awk '{print $1;}')
- cat $source_file | grep MODULE_IMPORT_NS | sort -u >> ${source_file}.tmp
+ cat $source_file | grep MODULE_IMPORT_NS | LANG=C sort -u >> ${source_file}.tmp
tail -n +$((offset +1)) ${source_file} | grep -v MODULE_IMPORT_NS >> ${source_file}.tmp
if ! diff -q ${source_file} ${source_file}.tmp; then
mv ${source_file}.tmp ${source_file}
--
2.17.1
