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 <[email protected]> know about it.
>From aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:58:38 +0200
Subject: perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration
From: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Ohm <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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 [email protected] are
queue-3.0/perf-tools-do-not-look-at-.-config-for-configuration.patch
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