From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755060Ab1GGDze (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 23:55:34 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33845 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753186Ab1GGDzd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 23:55:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Bug#632923: linux-tools-2.6.39: perf tries to read ./config, fails if it is not a perf config file From: Ben Hutchings To: Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: 632923@bugs.debian.org, Christian Ohm , LKML In-Reply-To: <20110707024506.GA32088@moongate.localnet> References: <20110707024506.GA32088@moongate.localnet> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Kw5rg2zDNjGvzNLnUKVE" Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:55:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1310010913.4280.36.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-Kw5rg2zDNjGvzNLnUKVE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 04:45 +0200, Christian Ohm wrote: > Package: linux-tools-2.6.39 > Version: 2.6.39-3 > Severity: normal >=20 > Hello, >=20 > When running perf, it looks for a config file in /etc/perfconfig, > ~/.perfconfig, and ./config (according to strace). If ./config is not a > perf configuration, it fails (or possibly does unexpected things). Since > "config" is a quite generic name (I have 175 files with that name on my > system) it would be nice if this is changed to e.g. ./.perfconfig. This indeed seems like a misfeature. Is perf supposed to be invoked in directories dedicated to its use? If not, why should it expect a generically-named file to belong to it? Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindber= g --=-Kw5rg2zDNjGvzNLnUKVE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAThUuGue/yOyVhhEJAQrJQA//WDiXqjvagX1lx9K+M/3lK0im/ee852aq raj6vVdGFkdjrdifc1VcwYDNF2bv6pyLxamiO7eWb93ZAWCEWnWTyFtaVZ+4na00 XorkV7VNQW0g6hTWQGuuKI+LvyQPGvzJNXntu5U9nomJV5Y3pFAcR5KD/2ZPTcjh iLM5Ck/LgIswTNfj47rC7ntR6HP1A1qrn7kCP/paKgvd8GK9mAKRGW+VOTaZ2lKI N0mAFY4nDQGgksV5OUoBc/3vDhkIKiS+uhthksHIncjT50i6N9Tvu42xJj2WTplA ZPjipwOqm/F3Jzrz8V9jrFs3tuhSC2fmF2X0BEri2RI7CPaBXX7AsJsxKIjwHwCR sST8f6bzDPI/rtnd9DD57tHFRzJ2EWpR4MWbG9ApGE0t04RD5I/SvKSkFUtBnYsh c/Fnr/lMIvaR2bI99EJTLqh4y2TB1WdIpyf1r4cRehOf8eVXXcj/2iiI+VaFfzI/ KZZboQZqcDZaGvjon6qt3X9UMctfL1EmQO5pAUHBpIY4YApq+DwzOCS6my2Y9KxL 6oVxpbFp8h6Or22K7gTbBi6UVj4bqFuCX9Qz2VidhAZUquh8yIaT+tlYzlp6sMfj NwIXHUWJgTGR8PkgB71qc2mY329d6bWoaYvEugPrpUrEiTGdneNkN2VqtNXcSlj7 IqUcsH9UfJw= =vjk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Kw5rg2zDNjGvzNLnUKVE--