The patch titled Subject: init/Kconfig: don't assume scripts/lld-version.sh is executable has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is init-kconfig-dont-assume-scripts-lld-versionsh-is-executable.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/init-kconfig-dont-assume-scripts-lld-versionsh-is-executable.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/init-kconfig-dont-assume-scripts-lld-versionsh-is-executable.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: init/Kconfig: don't assume scripts/lld-version.sh is executable Kbuild should not assume that scripts have the x bit set. This is because downloading and applying patch-X.Y.gz is a supported way of updating the kernel source, and patch(1) loses the x bit. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/init/Kconfig~init-kconfig-dont-assume-scripts-lld-versionsh-is-executable +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ config CLANG_VERSION config LLD_VERSION int - default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) + default $(shell,/bin/sh $(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD)) config CC_CAN_LINK bool _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are kthread_worker-document-cpu-hotplug-handling-fix.patch mm.patch mm-remove-the-unuseful-else-after-a-return-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-prevent-gup_fast-from-racing-with-cow-during-fork-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-swap_state-skip-meaningless-swap-cache-readahead-when-ra_infowin-==-0-fix.patch mm-vmallocc-__vmalloc_area_node-avoid-32-bit-overflow.patch mm-truncateshmem-handle-truncates-that-split-thps-fix-fix.patch mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings-fix-2.patch lib-cmdline_kunit-add-a-new-test-suite-for-cmdline-api-fix.patch ilog2-improve-ilog2-for-constant-arguments-checkpatch-fixes.patch lib-test_bitmapc-add-for_each_set_clump-test-cases-checkpatch-fixes.patch checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix.patch resource-fix-kernel-doc-markups-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch init-kconfig-dont-assume-scripts-lld-versionsh-is-executable.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch