Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Use date instead of EPOCHSECONDS in mitigation-patching.sh

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:24:36 +1000, Russell Currey wrote:

The EPOCHSECONDS environment variable was added in bash 5.0 (released
2019).  Some distributions of the "stable" and "long-term" variety ship
older versions of bash than this, so swap to using the date command
instead.

"%s" was added to coreutils `date` in 1993 so we should be good, but who
knows, it is a GNU extension and not part of the POSIX spec for `date`.

[...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] selftests/powerpc: Use date instead of EPOCHSECONDS in mitigation-patching.sh
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/cb662608e546d755e3e1b51b30a269459323bf24

cheers