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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	632923@bugs.debian.org, Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: do not look at ./config for configuration
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:34:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110805173447.GC14925@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110805165838.GA7237@elie.gateway.2wire.net>

Em Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 06:58:38PM +0200, Jonathan Nieder escreveu:
> 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.

Thanks, I'll apply this one.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110707024506.GA32088@moongate.localnet>
2011-07-07  3:55 ` Bug#632923: linux-tools-2.6.39: perf tries to read ./config, fails if it is not a perf config file Ben Hutchings
2011-08-05 16:58   ` [PATCH] perf: do not look at ./config for configuration Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-05 17:34     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-08-10  8:26     ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jonathan Nieder

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