On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:18:35PM +0000, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Commit-ID: c051346b7db27aaf674b8f3b4955240580b2a58a > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c051346b7db27aaf674b8f3b4955240580b2a58a > Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> > AuthorDate: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:56:11 -0800 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> > CommitDate: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:03:21 -0800 > > Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C > > There are a number of common Unix constructs like character ranges in > grep/sed/awk which don't work as expected with LC_COLLATE set to other > than C. Similarly, set LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC to C to avoid other > nasty surprises. > > In order to make sure these actually take effect we also have to > clear LC_ALL. > > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > LKML-Reference: <4B2A1761.4070904@xxxxxxx> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff. In the distant past something similar caused us troubles. I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes the relevant troubles with the awk script and that this patch is just for consistency. So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1. Anyway - just MHO. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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