[Lucid][PATCH] UBUNTU: Enable perf to be more helpful when perf_<version> does not exist.

[Stefan Bader]

The change will more or less only affect the error case. It has been tested in
Maverick. So regression potential is low.

Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

On 06/08/2010 03:35 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch as already been excepted in Maverick.
> 
> I would also like it to go into Lucid.
> 
> The following changes since commit f8b7e92f771b23dafe40a6a1080cd89a3187628e:
>   Jerome Glisse (1):
>         (pre-stable) drm/radeon/kms: initialize set_surface_reg reg for rs600 asic
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/lag/ubuntu-lucid.git lp570500
> 
> Lee Jones (1):
>       UBUNTU: Enable perf to be more helpful when perf_<version> does not exist.
> 
>  debian/tools/perf |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/debian/tools/perf b/debian/tools/perf
> index 79253d2..ab35fab 100644 (file)
> --- a/debian/tools/perf
> +++ b/debian/tools/perf
> @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
>  #!/bin/bash
> -version=`uname -r`
> -flavour=${version#*-}
> -flavour=${flavour#*-}
> -version=${version%-$flavour}
> +full_version=`uname -r`
>  
> -exec "perf_$version" "$@"
> +# Removing flavour from version i.e. generic or server.
> +flavour_abi=${full_version#*-}
> +flavour=${flavour_abi#*-}
> +version=${full_version%-$flavour}
> +perf="perf_$version"
> +
> +if ! which "$perf" > /dev/null; then
> +    echo "$perf not found" >&2
> +    echo "You may need to install linux-tools-$version" >&2
> +    exit 2
> +fi
> +
> +exec "$perf" "$@"
> 
> Kind regards,
> Lee
>