False positive in rt patches

Nick linux-libre-list at njw.me.uk
Sun Oct 25 18:06:57 UTC 2009


Hi,

I'm currently working on adding a Gentoo build for a linux libre 
2.6.31.4  kernel with the new realtime patches. It applies cleanly, 
which is great, but deblob-check incorrectly sees a blob in the 
patch. The patchfile is available at 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.31.4-rt14.bz2 
, and the false positives are in a new documentation file, 
Documentation/trace/histograms.txt They're a table of example output 
from a feature of the realtime kernel;
deblob-check -B patch-2.6.31.4-rt14.bz2 gives:
::: patch-2.6.31.4-rt14 :::
    0         2984486876
    1           49843506
    2           58219047
    3            5348126
    4            2187960
    5            3388262
    6             959289
    7             208294
    8              40420
    9               4485
   10              14918
   11              18340
   12              25052
   13              19455
   14               5602
   15                969
   16                 47
   17                 18
   18                 14
   19                  1
   20                  3
   21                  2
   22                  5
   23                  2
   25                  1

I looked through the deblob script, but wasn't sure the best way to 
mark these false-positives. Please could you advise me, and once we 
get it sorted, add it to the deblob script?

Thanks alot, keep up the Good Work.

Nick

P.S. Please could you change the reference to my gentoo ebuilds from 
'Genfree' ebuilds to 'Gentoo' ebuilds. Much as the (albeit strange) 
pun is nice, it is quite confusing for new people who are looking to 
see if a libre kernel is easily available for Gentoo. Thanks.

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