Re: [PATCH] perf tools: get version from uname(2), not /proc

[Adrian Hunter]

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).

Isn't the machine root dir for guests? uname() won't work for them.


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