The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build now contains warnings that look like: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E fix this using "grep -E" instead. sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl tools/testing/selftests/net` Here are the steps to install the latest grep: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make sudo make install export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- As Shuah suggested, this patch should go through net tree tools/testing/selftests/net/toeplitz.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/toeplitz.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/toeplitz.sh index 0a49907..da5bfd8 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/toeplitz.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/toeplitz.sh @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DEV="eth0" # This is determined by reading the RSS indirection table using ethtool. get_rss_cfg_num_rxqs() { echo $(ethtool -x "${DEV}" | - egrep [[:space:]]+[0-9]+:[[:space:]]+ | + grep -E [[:space:]]+[0-9]+:[[:space:]]+ | cut -d: -f2- | awk '{$1=$1};1' | tr ' ' '\n' | -- 2.1.0