Re: [PATCH] /bin/dmesg to dmesg Path

[Namhyung Kim]

Hello,

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 6:10 AM April John <april@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dmesg is not in every distro at /bin/dmesg, in NixOS for example, this fails,
> but the path should in most cases contain dmesg.
> This follows the example of replacing /bin/bash with bash Path in the codebase.
>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index a8a5ff87c..aa602aae6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
>
> return scnprintf(msg, size,
> "The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s) for event (%s).\n"
> - "/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.\n",
> + "dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.\n",
> err, str_error_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)), evsel__name(evsel));
> }
>
> --
> 2.42.0
>
> Signed-off-by: April John <april@xxxxxxxx>

It is usual to put a tag after the patch, it should be at the end of the
commit message.  With that,

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Namhyung