This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-tools-do-not-look-at-.-config-for-configuration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it.


>From aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:58:38 +0200
Subject: perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>

commit aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea upstream.

In addition to /etc/perfconfig and $HOME/.perfconfig, perf looks for
configuration in the file ./config, imitating git which looks at
$GIT_DIR/config.  If ./config is not a perf configuration file, it
fails, or worse, treats it as a configuration file and changes behavior
in some unexpected way.

"config" is not an unusual name for a file to be lying around and perf
does not have a private directory dedicated for its own use, so let's
just stop looking for configuration in the cwd.  Callers needing
context-sensitive configuration can use the PERF_CONFIG environment
variable.

Requested-by: Christian Ohm <chr....@gmx.net>
Cc: 632...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Ohm <chr....@gmx.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805165838.ga7...@elie.gateway.2wire.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>

---
 tools/perf/util/config.c |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c
@@ -399,7 +399,6 @@ static int perf_config_global(void)
 int perf_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data)
 {
        int ret = 0, found = 0;
-       char *repo_config = NULL;
        const char *home = NULL;
 
        /* Setting $PERF_CONFIG makes perf read _only_ the given config file. */
@@ -421,12 +420,6 @@ int perf_config(config_fn_t fn, void *da
                free(user_config);
        }
 
-       repo_config = perf_pathdup("config");
-       if (!access(repo_config, R_OK)) {
-               ret += perf_config_from_file(fn, repo_config, data);
-               found += 1;
-       }
-       free(repo_config);
        if (found == 0)
                return -1;
        return ret;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jrnie...@gmail.com are

queue-3.0/perf-tools-do-not-look-at-.-config-for-configuration.patch

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