Re: [PATCH 1/1] merge_config.sh: ignore unwanted grep errors

[Guillaume Tucker]

+ Jon Hunter who hit a similar issue

On 28/08/2019 21:19, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> The merge_config.sh script verifies that all the config options have
> their expected value in the resulting file and prints any issues as
> warnings.  These checks aren't intended to be treated as errors given
> the current implementation.  However, since "set -e" was added, if the
> grep command to look for a config option does not find it the script
> will then abort prematurely.
> 
> Handle the case where the grep exit status is non-zero by setting
> ACTUAL_VAL to an empty string to restore previous functionality.
> 
> Fixes: cdfca821571d ("merge_config.sh: Check error codes from make")
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
> index d924c51d28b7..d673268d414b 100755
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$TMP_FILE $OUTPUT_ARG $ALLTARGET
>  for CFG in $(sed -n -e "$SED_CONFIG_EXP1" -e "$SED_CONFIG_EXP2" $TMP_FILE); do
>  
>  	REQUESTED_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" $TMP_FILE)
> -	ACTUAL_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" "$KCONFIG_CONFIG")
> +	ACTUAL_VAL=$(grep -w -e "$CFG" "$KCONFIG_CONFIG" || echo)
>  	if [ "x$REQUESTED_VAL" != "x$ACTUAL_VAL" ] ; then
>  		echo "Value requested for $CFG not in final .config"
>  		echo "Requested value:  $REQUESTED_VAL"
>