Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: firmware: remove use of non-standard diff -Z option

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:37:32PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:12:15PM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> > diff -Z is used to trim the trailing whitespace when comparing the
> > loaded firmware file with the source firmware file. However, per the
> > comment in the source code, -Z should not be necessary. In testing, the
> > input and output files are identical.
> > 
> > Additionally, -Z is not a standard option and is not available in
> > environments such as busybox. When -Z is not supported, diff fails with
> > a usage error, which is suppressed, but then causes read_firmwares() to
> > exit with a false failure message.
> 
> NACK -- this breaks testing on debian:
> 
> Testing with the file present...
> Batched request_firmware() try #1: Files
> /tmp/tmp.8GWkoSo5jZ/test-firmware.bin and
> /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_firmware/read_firmware differ
> request #0: firmware was not loaded
> 
> Please add a quirks check, enable it by default, and remove it for
> Busybox.

Thanks for the review. Shuah, can you please drop this one?

Dan

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