This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: use printf instead of echo -ne 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-use-printf-instead-of-echo-ne.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 e7dad72ce07bdd3a4250832f1a5fbeda37df4566 Author: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 9 09:55:36 2023 +0100 selftests: use printf instead of echo -ne [ Upstream commit 9e34fad00fc889abbb99d751a4c22cf2bded10df ] Rather than trying to guess which implementation of "echo" to run with support for "-ne" options, use "printf" instead of "echo -ne". It handles escape characters as a standard feature and it is widespread among modern shells. Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3297a4df805d ("kselftests: Enable the echo command to print newlines in Makefile") Fixes: 79c16b1120fe ("selftests: find echo binary to use -ne options") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 253596a1cb69c..aae64eb2ae737 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile @@ -231,11 +231,10 @@ 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 ] && printf "Skipping non-existent dir: $$TARGET\n" && continue; \ + printf "Emit Tests for $$TARGET\n"; \ $(MAKE) -s --no-print-directory OUTPUT=$$BUILD_TARGET COLLECTION=$$TARGET \ -C $$TARGET emit_tests >> $(TEST_LIST); \ done;