This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: find echo binary to use -ne options to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-find-echo-binary-to-use-ne-options.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3bf2821af45e860c0adac984106b264057738b86 Author: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 3 16:26:03 2023 +0100 selftests: find echo binary to use -ne options [ Upstream commit 4ebe33398c40c1118b4d8546978036c0e0032d1b ] Find the actual echo binary using $(which echo) and use it for formatted output with -ne. On some systems, the default echo command doesn't handle the -e option and the output looks like this (arm64 build): -ne Emit Tests for alsa -ne Emit Tests for amd-pstate -ne Emit Tests for arm64 This is for example the case with the KernelCI Docker images e.g. kernelci/gcc-10:x86-kselftest-kernelci. With the actual echo binary (e.g. in /bin/echo), the output is formatted as expected (x86 build this time): Emit Tests for alsa Emit Tests for amd-pstate Skipping non-existent dir: arm64 Only the install target is using "echo -ne" so keep the $ECHO variable local to it. Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3297a4df805d ("kselftests: Enable the echo command to print newlines in Makefile") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile index f07aef7c592c2..253596a1cb69c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile @@ -231,10 +231,11 @@ ifdef INSTALL_PATH @# While building kselftest-list.text skip also non-existent TARGET dirs: @# they could be the result of a build failure and should NOT be @# included in the generated runlist. + ECHO=`which echo`; \ for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do \ BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET; \ - [ ! -d $(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET ] && echo "Skipping non-existent dir: $$TARGET" && continue; \ - echo -ne "Emit Tests for $$TARGET\n"; \ + [ ! -d $(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET ] && $$ECHO "Skipping non-existent dir: $$TARGET" && continue; \ + $$ECHO -ne "Emit Tests for $$TARGET\n"; \ $(MAKE) -s --no-print-directory OUTPUT=$$BUILD_TARGET COLLECTION=$$TARGET \ -C $$TARGET emit_tests >> $(TEST_LIST); \ done;