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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help
To:     Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 5/20/20 2:25 AM, Matt Helsley wrote:
> When the user requests help it's not an error so do not exit with
> a non-zero exit code. This is not especially useful for a user but
> any script that might wish to check that objtool --help is at least
> available can't rely on the exit code to crudely check that, for
> example, building an objtool executable succeeds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Kamalesh