On Tue, October 6, 2009 3:44 pm, Rob Landley wrote:

On Monday 05 October 2009 18:57:14 berk walker wrote:

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Rob Landley wrote:

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On Monday 05 October 2009 11:01:39 Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:

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From: Vladimir Dronnikov <redacted>

drivers/md/unroll.pl replaced by awk script to drop build-time
dependency on perl

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Dronnikov <redacted>

Acked-by: Rob Landley <redacted>

We already discussed this on another mailing list, thread starts at:

http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2009-Octo
ber/000328.html

I've added this as patch #4 in the perl removal series I've submitted
during the last few merge windows.

Thanks,

Rob

Why is perl being removed? [I know that I have missed a lot]
berk-

Before 2.6.25 the kernel build had never used perl,

Uhhhmmmm.  md has used perl for creating some C files since
RAID6 was added, which is before the dawn of git.

So I don't think this statement is true.

I'm have to remove the perl dependency though.

NeilBrown

   and the first perl
removal
patches were submitted for 2.6.26, so the real question is "why was it
added,
and was it worth it?"

There was a long thread on an earlier submission of the patches, which
Alan
Cox concluded (as far as I'm concerned, unless Linus, Andrew Morton, or
maybe
Al Viro want to weigh in) with this post:

  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.1/02108.html

Archives are linked from there, you might have to check adjacent weeks
too.

Rob
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