On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:19:17AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > On 07/10/15 11:18, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:53:14PM -0700, Matt Mullins wrote: > >> Tools in kmod (e.g. modprobe) compose the module path from the release > >> from uname(2). Because we use the UNAME26 personality, we need perf to > >> find modules located at the same path as the system tools. > > > > I guess it's easy to google this up, but could you > > please state in the changelog what's the difference > > between the current version and the UNAME26 one? > > > > Also state (and check) this change wouldn't affect other > > parts of the code that use this version (if there's any).
This is the only caller of get_kernel_version. > Isn't the machine root dir for guests? uname() won't work for them. Aye, this would break --guestmount. Would it make sense to use uname() iff root_dir is the empty string, or is that too much special-casing for good taste? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
