[PATCH] Fix incompatibility with versions of Perl less than 5.6.0

From: Jeremy Huntwork
Date: Fri Oct 17 2008 - 00:48:28 EST


Resubmitting after Alexander kindly clued me into the documentation I missed.

This patch (made against 2.6.27.1 vanilla) fixes headers_install.pl and headers_check.pl to be compatible with versions of Perl less than 5.6.0. It has been tested with Perl 5.005_03 and 5.8.8. I realize this may not be an issue for most people, but there will still be some that hit it, I imagine. There are three basic issues:

1. Prior to 5.6.0 open() only used 2 arguments, and the versions of the scripts in 2.6.27.1 use 3.
2. 5.6.0 also introduced the ability to use uninitialized scalar variables as file handles, which the current scripts make use of.
3. Lastly, 5.6.0 also introduced the pragma 'use warnings'. We can use the -w switch and be backwards compatible.

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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.27.1.orig/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_check.pl linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/ headers_check.pl
--- linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_check.pl 2008-10-15 19:02:53.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/headers_check.pl 2008-10-17 00:24:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# headers_check.pl execute a number of trivial consistency checks
#
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
# 2) TODO: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols

use strict;
-use warnings;

my ($dir, $arch, @files) = @ARGV;

@@ -27,14 +26,15 @@ my $lineno = 0;
my $filename;

foreach my $file (@files) {
+ local *FH;
$filename = $file;
- open(my $fh, '<', "$filename") or die "$filename: $!\n";
+ open(FH, "<$filename") or die "$filename: $!\n";
$lineno = 0;
- while ($line = <$fh>) {
+ while ($line = <FH>) {
$lineno++;
check_include();
}
- close $fh;
+ close FH;
}
exit $ret;

diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.27.1.orig/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_install.pl linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/ headers_install.pl
--- linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_install.pl 2008-10-15 19:02:53.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/headers_install.pl 2008-10-17 00:24:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# headers_install prepare the listed header files for use in
# user space and copy the files to their destination.
@@ -17,28 +17,29 @@
# 3) Drop all sections defined out by __KERNEL__ (using unifdef)

use strict;
-use warnings;

my ($readdir, $installdir, $arch, @files) = @ARGV;

my $unifdef = "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__";

foreach my $file (@files) {
+ local *INFILE;
+ local *OUTFILE;
my $tmpfile = "$installdir/$file.tmp";
- open(my $infile, '<', "$readdir/$file")
+ open(INFILE, "<$readdir/$file")
or die "$readdir/$file: $!\n";
- open(my $outfile, '>', "$tmpfile") or die "$tmpfile: $!\n";
- while (my $line = <$infile>) {
+ open(OUTFILE, ">$tmpfile") or die "$tmpfile: $!\n";
+ while (my $line = <INFILE>) {
$line =~ s/([\s(])__user\s/$1/g;
$line =~ s/([\s(])__force\s/$1/g;
$line =~ s/([\s(])__iomem\s/$1/g;
$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__\s/ /g;
$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__$//g;
$line =~ s/^#include <linux\/compiler.h>//;
- printf $outfile "%s", $line;
+ printf OUTFILE "%s", $line;
}
- close $outfile;
- close $infile;
+ close OUTFILE;
+ close INFILE;
system $unifdef . " $tmpfile > $installdir/$file";
unlink $tmpfile;
}

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